Tag Archives: Japan

COMMENT | SHAO XIA | In September, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for deleting the “Enemy State Clauses” from the UN Charter at the UN General Assembly, drawing criticism from the international community. In fact, this is not Japan’s first such attempt. Since joining the United Nations in the 1950s, …

  Many Japanese are thinking about whether to continue burial traditions that place on their relatives financial and emotional costs associated with maintaining the family grave   COMMETN | MIMI HANAOKA | Whenever I drive amid the mazelike bustle of Tokyo’s Shuto Expressway, where approximately 1 million vehicles transit daily, I see …

WASHINGTON | TASS | The Dutch team defeated Tunisia 3-1 in the final Group F match at the World Cup in Kansas City on Friday. Ellyes Skhiri of Tunisia scored an own goal in the 3rd minute. The Netherlands’ Brian Brobbey made it 2-0 in the 7th minute, and his …

Now that she has consolidated her power in Japan’s legislature,  what she will do with it? COMMENT | ADAM SIMPSON | Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has delivered her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections she called shortly after taking office. Now that she has consolidated her …

TOKYO | Xinhua |  Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday announced her plan to dissolve the House of Representatives on Jan. 23 for a snap general election set for Feb. 8. At a press conference, Takaichi said she will dissolve the 465-member lower house on Friday, the opening day …

COMMENT | IAN BURUMA | It didn’t take long for Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, to rile the Chinese government. On November 7, just weeks after her election, Takaichi responded to a question in parliament about a possible Chinese attack or blockade against Taiwan by saying that it could constitute …

BERLIN | Xinhua | Back in 2015, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel reminded Japanese leaders during a visit to Tokyo that Germany’s postwar reconciliation was only possible because it had chosen to confront its past honestly. Her pointed message was widely interpreted as a history lesson for then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo …

East Africa’s external engagement has long been dominated by China and Europe. Japan offers a third option COMMENT | CHRISTOPHER BURKE | President Museveni’s recent comments on Uganda’s right to access the Indian Ocean underscore just how central the waterway is to East Africa’s economic and strategic future. The Indian Ocean …

TOKYO | Xinhua | Japan’s main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) leader Yoshihiko Noda on Sunday criticized Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent erroneous remarks on China’s Taiwan, local media reported. At a party meeting in Nagasaki Prefecture, Noda, a former prime minister, said Takaichi “went too far” and …

TOKYO | Ian Buruma |  Why did it take so long for Japan to have a female prime minister? This may seem like an unfair question. After all, the United States has never elected a female president, and a woman has never presided over the Communist Party of China. Even the Netherlands, …