GlobalTalk 21

If you believe Asahi Shinbun (and there’s no reason not to), at a Sunday night talkfest with a group of students : Student: Isn’t it becaus...

I hating seeing people use insinuations to further their arguments, and I try to avoid doing so myself. However, some things just cry out fo...

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 blog gifts you on this the Tanabatas Day with political financing money miscellany. According to its FY2007 report filed with the Mini...

Yoshimasa Hayashi and Motoo Hayashi joined the Fukuda administration on 2 August 2008 as Minister of Defense and Director-General of the Nat...

There’s really not much to write about Japanese politics these days. The Hatoyama caper (I’ve written a brief explanation at the bottom of t...

A rare success story for the beleaguered Aso administration has been its response to the Novel Influenza (A/H1N1). When the news of the viru...

A look at two last-minute reversals of fortune that saved LDP administrations from devastating election losses gives us some idea of what Pr...

Poll results as a whole continue to vary widely between each other, while the newspaper polls reflect their respective political outlooks a...

Ichiro Ozawa has finally consented to face off on May 13 against Prime Minister Aso in the Diet session party-leader debate—launched nine ye...

Spring and the new fiscal year have brought Prime Minister Aso and the LDP-Komeito coalition good tidings. April did begin somewhat inauspic...

For all the recent messiness regarding the Nishimatsu political money, Ichiro Ozawa and the DPJ for the most part still led or at least tied...

News reports say that Toshihiro Nikai, in his second tour as METI Minister, has been singled out by the Public Prosecutors Office for specia...

There’s little that can be settled between someone with a four-year lease on power with a one-off extension option for the landlord and anot...

The three most recent administrations have been plagued by Cabinet appointments gone bad. In fact, the Abe administration arguably lost cont...

Coming from Sankei , this report supports another contention of mine (the other was that the LDP doesn’t want to push him out until April c...

Yomiuri was the most favored of all. I’ve noted that Yomiuri was kindest to the Finance Minister when the story about the press briefing m...

The proprietor of Shisaku sends his friends a Reuters link that Shoichi Nakagawa just announced his intent to resign after the Lower House...

This post is dedicated to Drs. YH and PS and the letters C, O, and H. Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa’s latest spacewalk at the G7 meetin...

I don’t know what—carelessness? fearlessness? mindlessness?—that was driving Prime Minister Aso when he wandered all over the map expressing...