“The Entire US Military is Just Crazy!”
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 24, 2018.
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Moon: Japan Should Accept Truth about Comfort Women
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 10, 2018.
Seoul Reluctantly Accepts Comfort Women Pact
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 9, 2018.
Nikki Haley Has No Interest in Peace
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 3, 2018.
Today in Japan (12.27.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 27, 2017.
Japan’s Pro-Nuclear Labor Union
Explainer for Denryoku Soren, the Federation of Electric Power Related Industry Worker’s Unions
Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement at High Tide
On the day before the planned restart of the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, the Shingetsu News Agency is re-releasing the 22-minute documentary it made during the summer of 2012. Looking back from today’s perspective, we can now perceive that the anti-nuclear movement was at its high tide at that period.
Then Let It Be Nuclear
Senior members of the Shinzo Abe administration, from the prime minister on down, have already jumped into the Tokyo gubernatorial race to insist that candidates must not appeal to the public in terms of anti-nuclear policy, but instead according to what the government believes are the most “proper” subjects, namely preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and health care policy.
Abe’s Olympic Lies
Shinzo Abe loved his grandfather, and so the chance to follow in his footsteps must be exhilarating indeed. In 1959 Tokyo was awarded the 1964 Summer Olympics. The prime minister of Japan in 1959 was Nobusuke Kishi, the current prime minister’s grandfather. Shinzo Abe, of course, had nothing to do with initiating Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympics.
Restarting the Nuclear Reactor Restart Battle
The results of Sunday’s House of Councillors election are a foregone conclusion in light of the electoral district system and the number of candidates run by each party. The ruling coalition of the LDP and New Komeito will win a strong majority in the upper house but cannot possibly win on their own the 2/3 majority required for constitutional revision. What we will have when the Diet next opens will be the Abe government popular with the public and in firm control of the parliament.
