The Year in Japanese Politics 2012
The Shingetsu News Agency has been keeping a running log of the major developments in Japanese politics since January 2012. The following is our contemporary account of the entire year 2012.
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Constitutional Democrats Retain Command of the Opposition
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on May 9, 2018.
Historic Summit Between Leaders of North and South Korea
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on April 28, 2018.
Koike’s Crushing “Proxy War” Victory
Good news for the Tokyo governor in her struggle against the local chapter of the ruling party
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.
