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I had believed for some time that it was more likely than not that Ichiro Ozawa would bow out gracefully before the Lower House election. Af...

According to the Kyodo wire service , the Chinese authorities earlier this month stopped the China Diaoyutai Islands Defense Association (中...

According to Mexican sources, as of Wednesday evening Japan Time, the number of suspected deaths from swine flu reached 149 (152?) out of 1,...

Is this guy trying to tell us that the Singaporean economy may contract by 9% in 2009, yet he doesn’t see any sign of a fall in consumption...

I forgot to mention there that a Russian ship was also present. So, if North Korea was invited, it means that every member of the Six-Party...

Martin Fackler says in his NYT article entitled A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast : “If Marxism had ever produced a functional, ...

My experience with cruise ships is limited. And when I say limited , I mean limited . But I do have enough experience as a human being to kn...

Not quite. The DPJ survived the 2006 Koizumi landslide to hold on to four out of the four-and-a-half Nagoya seats* in the Lower House. The D...

That’s what the NYT headline to this Reuters wire says. Now it quotes Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa-based East African Sea Farers Assist...

On April 23, 21 naval vessels from 14 countries including the United States, South Korea, and India were invited to the international fleet ...

Keiichiro Asao, Defense Minister for the DPJ’s “Next Cabinet” appeared on TV Asahi today and said something eminently sensible: “If all the...

The four-member commission that the DPJ set up to look into the accountability of politicians, public prosecutors, and the media, as expecte...

I’ve had too many things going on to post the last couple of days, or even to respond to comments. (Sorry). And I might not surface till the...

I’ve said before how stupid I think it is to make concessions before we’ve even begun to restart negotiating with Russia on the Northern Ter...

I thank you all for taking to heart my exhortations and catapulting Japanese municipal assemblyperson Yuri Fujikawa to victory in the 20 Mi...

Dear Un-Economist: I’m a permanent resident of Japan and I’m worried because more and more people are dying in Japan every year, and cancer ...

Yesterday, Canada granted citizenship to some people who had lost their Canadian citizenship or never had had it in the first place. Watch t...

Dear Un-Economist: I am sick and tired of waiting three hours just to see the doctor for three minutes. Frankly, I have better things to do ...

A 20 year-old former tobishoku —a skilled construction worker somewhat similar to a “spiderman”—was brought before the Gifu District Court o...

Ichiro Ozawa makes what would be a good debating point with regard to the DPJ emergency package in his latest press conference here and her...