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• The Democratic Party of Japan’s credibility crisis

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Aurelia George Mulgan, UNSW@ADFA The Hatoyama government has reversed or partially reversed some of the key spending commitments in the DPJ’s 2009 election manifesto : - abolishing or reducing surtaxes on gasoline and car purchases etc. from fiscal 2010 - eliminating tolls on major highways across Japan ...
  5 hours ago

• No easy option with Japan’s Ozawa Ichiro

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Tobias Harris, MIT Ozawa Ichiro has escaped indictment by the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office again. Once again, his former secretaries were not quite so lucky, with three, including sitting Diet member Ishikawa Tomohiro, being indicted for political funds violations. Michael Cucek rightly points to the ...
  2 days ago

• Giving up on Japan’s Prime Minister Hatoyama

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Michael Cucek In the first book of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , protagonist Arthur Dent escapes Earth as the unwelcome guest of the Vogons – a race of nasty-tempered, ugly-minded, hideous-looking space-faring bureaucrats infamous for being the third worst poets in the Universe. ‘On no account ...
  2 days ago

• With Ozawa, theres no easy option

  
  Observing Japan — Authority: 117
  Ozawa Ichiro has escaped indictment by the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office again. Once again, his former secretaries were not quite so lucky, with three, including sitting Diet member Ishikawa Tomohiro, being indicted for political funds violations.Michael Cucek rightly points to the gross misconduct of the PPO in its ...
  4 days ago

• My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column Feb 2, 2010: “NJ suffrage and the racist element”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 131
  Excerpt: It is probably no surprise that this columnist supports PR suffrage. There are close to half a million Special Permanent Residents (the zainichi ethnic Koreans, Chinese, etc.), born and raised here, who have been paying Japanese taxes their entire lives. Moreover, their relatives were former citizens of the ...
  1 week ago

• Professor Hatoyama holds forth in Japan

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Tobias Harris, MIT Before entering politics — the family business — Hatoyama Yukio was a fledging academic, a Stanford-educated engineer. His background as an academic is often on display when he delivers set piece addresses. He has a penchant for abstraction, for drawing upon broad principles and shying ...
  1 week ago

• Professor Hatoyama holds forth

  
  Observing Japan — Authority: 117
  Before entering politics — the family business — Hatoyama Yukio was a fledging academic, a Stanford-educated engineer. His background as an academic is often on display when he delivers set piece addresses. He has a penchant for abstraction, for drawing upon broad principles and shying away from the nitty gritty ...
  1 week ago

• Upcoming television appearance

  
  Observing Japan — Authority: 117
  Readers in Japan will be able to catch me live on Sunday evening from 10:10pm, where I will be appearing on NHK BS-1 to debate the future of the US-Japan alliance with Okamoto Yukio, Michael Green, and Magosaki Ukeru.General information is available here (in Japanese). Click through for the whole post.
  1 week ago

• New thinking about foreign policy strategy in Japan

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Ryo Sasashi, University of Tokyo In the first hundred days under the new administration of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its coalition partners, Social Democratic Party (SDP) and People’s New Party (PNP), criticism of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s foreign policy stance by domestic and American ...
  2 weeks ago

• Japan’s political watershed and its economic challenges

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Akira Kojima Last year was a politically exciting but economically depressing year for Japan. It was the first time in 16 years that the government had been led by a party other than the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), but also a year in which Japan suffered its largest decline in GDP in half a century. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Japan Times on proposal to convert Itami Airport into “International Campus Freedom City”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 131
  Young-Turk Osaka Governor Hashimoto has been suggesting some interesting reforms recently, one of them, according to the Japan Times, is to close down Osaka Itami Airport (relocating all flights to KIX), and to use the land for creating an international campus, where international schools and universities would be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Japan’s Hatoyama government matters

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Tobias Harris, MIT As the Hatoyama government’s approval numbers have faltered and more recently plummeted, as reports about the inappropriately large role being played by Ozawa Ichiro in the government (despite not being a cabinet minister) have grown, as doubts about Hatoyama Yukio’s abilities as a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Japan’s Ozawa Ichiro – the power of one

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Aurelia George Mulgan, UNSW@ADFA Ozawa Ichiro’s current travails over a money politics scandal may have an upside for the Hatoyama government. It may serve to undermine Ozawa’s growing influence over government policy. As time has gone by, it is clear that Ozawa’s influence over the  Hatoyama ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why the Hatoyama government matters

  
  Observing Japan — Authority: 117
  As the Hatoyama governments approval numbers have faltered and more recently plummeted, as reports about the inappropriately large role being played by Ozawa Ichiro in the government (despite not being a cabinet minister) have grown, as doubts about Hatoyama Yukios abilities as a leader have deepened, and as the court ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Ozawa saga continues in Japanese politics

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Tobias Harris, MIT Say what you will about Ozawa Ichiro, but he is nothing if not resilient. In the nearly three years since the DPJ took control of the House of Councillors, he has resigned as party president twice, reversing his decision the first time in November 2008, returning as acting president in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Racist statements from Xenophobe Dietmember Hiranuma re naturalized J Dietmember

  
  debito.org — Authority: 131
  Kyodo: Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma on Sunday criticized remarks made by House of Councillors member Renho in November in trying to slash budget allocations for the supercomputer development by pointing to the fact that the politician, who goes by a single name, is a naturalized Japanese."I dont want to say ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asahi says 67%, Yomiuri 70% of Japanese want Ozawa to resign

  
  AnarchyJapan.com — Authority: 123
  Glancing at the morning Asahi things dont look so good for chief secretary Ichiro Ozawa . The main headlines says 67% of people surveyed want him to resign. The next line notes that support for the Hatoyama cabinet has fallen to 42% and the disapproval rating is 41%. Thats in the upper right, being the top news. If ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Ozawa innocent? Doesnt matter.

  
  AnarchyJapan.com — Authority: 123
  I wonder the following. Perhaps all politicians (not just in Japan, but anywhere) are dirty. Perhaps all politicians have a skeleton in their closet that someone knows about. And perhaps whenever a scandal hits the papers, its not because, for shame, that single politician actually did something "wrong", but merely ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Ozawa saga continues

  
  Observing Japan — Authority: 117
  Say what you will about Ozawa Ichiro, but he is nothing if not resilient. In the nearly three years since the DPJ took control of the House of Councillors, he has resigned as party president twice, reversing his decision the first time in November 2008, returning as acting president in charge of elections the second ...
  3 weeks ago

• Masuzoe threatens Japan’s LDP

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Tobias Harris, MIT In a press conference at LDP headquarters Tuesday, Masuzoe Yoichi, the upper house member and former cabinet minister who is one of a handful of politicians respected by the public, said that while he will try to do what he can within the LDP, he said that his ultimate aim is a political ...
  4 weeks ago

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