Towards the New Centrist Formation
The Party of Hope and the Democratic Party move slowly toward a new political formation. In the long run, however, even that will likely do them little good.
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Abe in Pyeongchang
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on February 9, 2018.
Today in Japan (12.25.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 25, 2017.
Cabinet Reshuffles Stabilizes Abe Administration
This Week in Japan is your source for news and information about politics and other happenings in this East Asian island country. This episode covers the Top Five stories of the first week of August 2017.
Shioya Resists Role as Fukushima Radiation Dump
As the Japanese nation approaches the fifth anniversary of the March 11 tragedy, the burden of dealing with the widespread radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster continues to expand. Now this issue is seriously impacting even a small community in Tochigi Prefecture called Shioya.
Rejoining the Nuclear Village
For several months we had been thinking that the success of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, or NRA, might represent one of the truly under-appreciated stories of 2013. For most of the anti-nuclear crowd the NRA could never really win much admiration because they dispute a fundamental premise upon which this organization was built — that nuclear energy could ever really be safe in earthquake-prone Japan no matter how strict the regulations.
