GlobalTalk 21

According to LDP By-Laws, “The General Council deliberates and decides all important matters concerning the management and Diet activities o...

Anyone who has read Taro Aso’s speech as Foreign Minister will realize that it is very far from the confrontational “League of Democracies”...

In a major strategic shift from the consensus-seeking Fukuda administration, Prime Minister decided to go on the attack in his inaugural pol...

Here , for the sake of argument, I conceded that “[Hirofumi] Nakasone[, the new Foreign Minister] is a flaming right-wing nationalist” by wa...

The media were full of reports about LDP and New Komeito members, including cabinet members Seiko Noda, Takeo Kawamura, Shigeru Ishiba, Take...

Whatever else the new Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kazuyoshi Kaneko, the replacement for the teachers union-hating Nariaki...

I’d mentioned briefly that the DPJ was exploring the need for sequencing its multitrillion-yen election-manifest upgrade package. The DPJ h...

Nariaki Nakayama may be gone as early as Monday, with New Komeito and LDP Diet members both desperately trying to push him under the bus. Th...

Matt Drudge has linked to a Kyodo wire by way of a JapanToday post on Lehman Europe’s sale to Nomura for two dollars. It’s… taking… a… l...

A follow-up to the previous post: Taro Aso does no better in the Yomiuri poll , where the numbers are 49.5-for, 33.4-against. The Koizumi-A...

An Asahi poll , of all things, puts the Aso Cabinet’s favored/unfavored numbers on the net plus side at 48-to-36. True, 48% is nothing to w...

I’ve been informed that (no, not that) ABC decided to scotch my interview on the LDP presidential election. I prefer to believe the explana...

I shouldn’t BUI, but I found this while browsing after I came home late, and I couldn’t resist. I hope you’ll still love me tomorrow. Accord...

Described by one nationalist blogger as a bunch of “parliamentarians who are selling out Japan to North Korea (kitachousen he no baikoku gii...

Who knows ? Anyway, it’s funny, and cool. And to the point, I suspect, but what would I know? By way of Princess Sparkle Pony .

Sankei is first with the news that Sadaharu Oh has decided to retire after this baseball season. This may be just the answer to Japan’s mo...

Taro Aso won most of the local chapter electoral votes, as I’ve already noted . And he didn’t do too badly with the popular vote either, acc...

The headline reads Guardian Angels Are Here, Say Most Americans but the report says, “More than half of all Americans believe they have bee...

Taro Aso: (local chapter votes 134, Diet member votes 217, total 351) Kaoru Yosano (2, 64, 66) Yuriko Koike (0, 40, 40) Nobuteru Ishihara (1...

Ross has reminded me that the Japan Communist Party’s decision not to field candidates in half, likely more, of the 300 single-seat seat Low...