Today in Japan (12.20.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 20, 2017.
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Unanswered Questions about Moritomo Gakuen
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 final week of November 2017.
Today in Japan (11.27.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 27, 2017.
Today in Japan (11.26.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 26, 2017.
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.
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.
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.
