GlobalTalk 21

The following is a memo that I dashed off in response to this WSJ report that an esteemed colleague sent me. Its shelf-life might wind up ...

As a timesaving measure (for me), here’s a Q&A that I had to fill out in the course of my work broadly defined the day before Hatoyama r...

A couple of stories on the Sankei website here and here . In the first one, cabinet ministers including Naoto and Kazuhiro Haraguchi, the ...

Veiled grumbling and anonymous comments in the DPJ trying to wish away Prime Minister Hatoyama are quickly shifting to open calls to do the ...

Hey, yours truly, quoted in The Telegraph . I actually suggested it as a “very easy-to-carry-out scenario.” I know, I know, first someone ha...

On 17 March, Yukio Ubukata, one of thirteen DPJ deputy director-generals—off topic, but that’s lot of DPJ deputies, a revealing detail in it...

Rarely does a week go by in the two month old Hatoyama administration without news of yet another outrageous Ozawa incursion on Hatoyama ter...

My life has been taking/may be about to take some dramatic turns, so I don’t have enough time to generate meaningful stuff for this blog rig...

The political world continues to revolve around Ichiro Ozawa as he is tapped by Yukio Hatoyama to take over the DPJ Secretary-General post. ...

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...

DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama’s issues with regard to his political finances management organization (PFMO) keep getting weirder. When he addres...

Anyone who wants to know more about Yukio Hatoyama’s personal political finances can look at the FY 2007 Yuai Seikei Konwa-Kai report as mo...

Reporter: Exactly what kind of correction was made with regard to the political financing report? Since Mr. Hatoyama is already donating 9 m...

As part of a new wrinkle for this blog, I am answering some questions from Mark about LDP factions, the DPJ, and political leaders. Now, I’...

Ichiro Ozawa is already strongly positioned in the Upper House wing of the DPJ by virtue of the 2007 election victory over the LDP-New Komei...

Mainichi scores again with a 16-17 May poll . The table says: 1. Who is the more appropriate Prime Minister? Aso 21%, Hatoyama 34. 2. Do yo...

Woke up in the middle of the night (do not ask why), couldn’t resist looking at my email. Which led to an online look at the media’s reactio...

I suppose Junichiro Koizumi’s upset victory over Ryutaro Hashimoto in the 2001 LDP presidential race started it all, but whenever the LDP is...

Not much more to say, but I thought a brief follow-up was warranted since it looks like Yukio Hatoyama may be throwing his hat in the ring a...

I’ve already talked about the “emergent realism in the DPJ” . Now, Yukio Hatoyama, who has been the perfect deputy to DPJ leader Ichiro Ozaw...