Saturday, March 08, 2008

Asahi Gives Passing Grades to Toshirō Mutō

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The March 8 Asahi editorial says: Mr. Mutō worked as Finance Vice-Minister for two and a half years, the longest tenure in the post-War er...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Note on the Poisoned Chinese Dumplings: Two Societies, Two Politics

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The poisoned Chinese dumplings imported from China are already having a serious effect on Chinese food exports to Japan. According to a repo...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Hillary Clinton Ahead in Popular Vote, Yomiuri Reports

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That’s bad news for all you Obama fans, right? Yomiuri says ABC says, so it must be true, no? But then, why aren’t you hearing about it f...
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Back to Work, Asahi Says － Wakeup Call for DPJ

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Asahi * knocks the DPJ for “clinging to minority [opposition] tactics” and boycotting the Diet, and urges it to get back to work and attack...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Sentaku Addendum

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Shisaku ( here too), Observing Japan and this blog have all been holding forth on Sentaku . It somehow reminded me of how TIME and News...

LDP Pays Hardball

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It’s becoming evident that the LDP has been playing hardball since the LDP-New Kōmeitō coalition forced the vote in the Lower House on the ...

How Hillary Clinton Can Win

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Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist at Newsweek , does the math here to “show how deep a hole [Hillary Clinton] is in”, and inadver...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Sentaku Unfurls Both Wings on Dolls Festival Day

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… for what it’s worth… The Sentaku movement and its Diet member counterpart held their joint inaugural meeting on March 3 , just in time fo...

US Primaries Redux

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another day, another email ... Like you say, professor. As for Mr. Giuliani's campaign strategy, the fact that he tends to wear out his ...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Pox on Both Houses, Says Mainichi Poll

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The first opinion poll of the month comes from Mainichi (March 1-2), and what do we hear? Listen… The Fukuda Cabinet’s support numbers fal...

Clinton Isn’t Losing It, Obama Is Winning It

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The following is a very lightly edited version of a response that I just sent to an inquiry from a political science professor in Texas, of ...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

Mr. Fukuda Regrets; Mr. Ishiba Is Forgiven but Not Forgotten

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Sunday morning, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, visited the home of Haruo Kichisei and his son Tetsuhiro, the fishermen who have been missing s...

Follow-Up to March 1 Post on North Korea

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Sam Jameson is the go-to guy for everything you need to know about Japan and its environs but don't know enough to ask about. With regar...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

Does North Korea Have a Better Reason for Nukes?

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Professor Hideshi Takesada, Executive Director of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) of the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MOD...

My projections of Swift Ishiba Resignation Now Looks Too Precipitous

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It was only a couple of days ago when I argued that Defense Minister Ishiba’s resignation was imminent, though (as I responded to a comment...

Mainstream Dailies Line Up behind Gasoline Tax-Road Construction Compromise

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Yesterday, on the very last day of February, the LDP-New Kōmeitō coalition pushed the budget and budget-related bills through the Lower Hous...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Briefly: Defense Minister Looks Doomed

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Before I go back to the rest of my life: Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears to be near the end of the line after irregular conduct in i...
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No, The West Wing Imitated Life

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The other day, the resident Eurasia Group analyst offered to lend me the full DVD set of The West Wing , saying that the story line mirrored...

Kosovo Redux

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Here’s the substance of the answer, slightly edited, to a question that I received from an analyst. It’s for anyone else who found my previo...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Obama Rejects, and Denounces Farrakhan...

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I noticed that the Clinton-Obama debate was available online on the MSNBC website, so I caught the last twenty minutes or so live. To the ex...