GlobalTalk 21

…It’s about time, so why not reboot here… You know that anyone who's looking for proof of Japanese media bias need only look at the Yomi...

Who’d a-thunk. With former Prime Minister Hatoyama’s surprise (okay, so much for my predictive powers) full-throated support, Ichiro Ozawa i...

Blogger.com says that the following response to Mark’s comment is too long, so I’m posting it here. Sorry I don’t have time to post on the ...

Did you enjoy my ramblings about political funds? Rejoice then; Sankei —bless their damn-the-corporate-sponsor conservative souls—has a nice...

Asahi makes an attempt to translate the results of the Tokyo’s Prefectural Assembly election to its single-member districts (SMDs) in the ...

Yomiuri says that 13.44% of eligible voters had voted by 11AM, up 3.19 percentage points from the 2005 elections, but down from the 3.98 p...

Actually, the polls have been open since 7:00AM and Asahi says voting in the first two hours was 3.98% of total eligible voters, up from 2...

The FY2007 political financing report from the Seiwa-kai, , currently the largest LDP faction, which has not totally coincidentally produced...

My dialogue with Mark the Techie continues: Why do you like Nakasone? And what do you think of his son, Hirofumi? The elder Nakasone had—st...

The following is my response to a comment from Matt Dioguardi, with whom I had other enjoyable disagreements in the past, on this post . The...

In the first decades of the 1955 System, voter turnout hovered in the low 70s to the high 60s. It gradually declined, falling to the low 60s...

This was intended to be a post elaborating something I said here in response to the third comment from LB. However, while I was away from m...

Going one better on the DPJ, the LDP is moving to deny official candidate status to sons and daughters of retiring Diet members this Lower ...

LB’s comment here got me to thinking: What exactly do I mean by old-school? That led me to more thinking about Ozawa and the DPJ agenda. I ...

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...

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...

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...

Aso-LDP up, Ozawa-DPJ down in the polls, and the DPJ-favored candidate loses in both gubernatorial elections. The 15/55 trillion economic pa...

The latest economic package announced by the LDP-New Komeito coalition on Friday identifies two crises precipitated by the global financial ...

Toshihiro Nikai, the LDP faction leader and current METI Minister, had been looking like the yin to Ichiro Ozawa’s yang, Chip to Ozawa’s Dal...