Not so fast
MATURE AND PATIENT DELIBERATION has not been the hallmark of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, but a report in Sunday’s vernacular edi....
4 May 12:48 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Okinawa identity
With one of the hottest topics in Japan being Prime Minister Hayoyama’s repeated dithering over the Futenma base in Okinawa, and with a fr....
4 May 1:23 am  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Our Funny-Ass President
Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: hilarious. ....
3 May 3:06 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Contrasts
HERE’S a contrast worth examining. The first item to consider is from the new book, Uragiri no Minshuto (The DPJ Backstabbers), by Wakabay....
2 May 1:37 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Contrasts
HERE’S a contrast worth examining. The first item to consider is from the new book, Uragiri no Minshuto (The DPJ Backstabbers), by Wakabay....
2 May 1:37 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The hands of time
DURING A SPEECH on the morning of the 29th at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio said: There is a growing force to turn bac....
1 May 9:42 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Political Poster: Close the Base!
Political poster as reported in today's Japan Today. Caption reads: This full-page ad by Japanese group Juco Network ran in The Washington P....
1 May 6:57 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Would You Want 30 Military Bases In Your Backyard?
That’s the question asked by this full-page advertisement in the April 28th edition of the Washington Post [click to view full size]: The....
1 May 7:09 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The square pegs
THE NEAR IMPOSSIBILITY of Japanese politicians fitting into blocs representing conventional political philosophies–at least in the Western....
29 Apr 9:28 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The race is on
IN JUNE 2008, we had this post covering Hiranuma Takeo’s criticism of former Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichiro and the financial and pri....
27 Apr 2:27 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Substitution
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. - Ralph Waldo Eme....
26 Apr 6:00 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Mainichi on Your Party
SATO CHIYAKO wrote an op-ed about Your Party for the Mainichi Shimbun this week. Here it is in English: They’re calling it the Tama Shock.....
24 Apr 12:41 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Loopy Hatoyama
Back on April 14th, Washington Post columnist Al Kamen wrote the following about the nuclear summit held in Washington: By....
23 Apr 7:17 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Uncategorizable
ONE REASON it seems to be so difficult for Japanese politicians to create a stable two-party system is that their behavior makes it so diffi....
22 Apr 2:21 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
YouTube Vlogger PropagandaBuster Gets a Japanese Book Deal
A few years ago, anti-Greenpeace/Sea Shepherd videos uploaded by an obscure YouTube Vlogger who goes by the user name Prop....
21 Apr 12:35 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan’s new government wrestles with capital punishment policy
The recent change of leadership in Japan may affect the penal system, in particular, the system of capital punishment. read more....
20 Apr 2:32 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan’s Outstanding Debt
A graphic from Asahi TV compares the size of Greece’s outstanding debt (38 trillion yen) to Japan’s outstanding debt (8....
20 Apr 11:52 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
“Films by young directors shed new light on A-bomb survivors”
From Japan Today:U.N. disarmament experts and antinuclear campaigners may have heard about Japanese atomic-bomb survivors, but a pair of doc....
17 Apr 8:06 am  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A double election in Japan?
Newspapers have come upon a bend in the road. As the bureaucratic structures of Kasumigaseki have hypertrophied, I wonder whether newspapers....
15 Apr 1:13 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese politicians need to wake up
Quite literally, according to this image. (Thanks, Adam!)....
15 Apr 12:16 am  from  TokyoMango.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Scoring Obama's Performance with a Truth-o-Meter
Politifact.com is doing an excellent job of tracking how Obama is doing on his campaign promises. Also worth a look: the "Pants-on-Fire" pa....
11 Apr 4:29 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Aspirations update
HERE’S SOME MORE information on the new party soon to be formed by a group of local government chief executives calling themselves the Nih....
10 Apr 6:00 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Aspirations update
HERE’S SOME MORE information on the new party soon to be formed by a group of local government chief executives calling themselves the Nih....
10 Apr 6:00 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Chip off the old block
ONE OF THE MOST compelling debaters in the Diet debate during Question Time was former Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichiro of the Liberal De....
10 Apr 3:05 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
“Right-wingers vow to block release of ‘The Cove’ in Japan”
More "Cove" related news from today's Japan Today:Dozens of right-wing activists protested Friday outside the office of a Japanese distribut....
10 Apr 1:03 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Keidanren to call for 10% sales tax in Japan?
The Nikkei is reporting that Keidanren (The Japan Business Federation) is set to call for an increase in Japan’s sales tax from the curren....
10 Apr 1:10 am  from  Japan Economy News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Nothing more expensive than free tollroads
LAST OCTOBER, a month after the Democratic Party of Japan formed a new government, then-Finance Minister Fujii Hirohisa appeared on a Sunday....
9 Apr 8:21 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Political Realignment In The Air
The Japanese political landscape is changing, slowly, gingerly. The new DPJ government has seen its popularity plunge (approval ratings are ....
9 Apr 5:18 pm  from  Janne In Osaka   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Grand designs
DURING THE TAPING of a television interview on the 8th, Koga Nobuaki, the chairman of Rengo (the Japanese Trade Union Federation), said abou....
8 Apr 11:55 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
For most Japanese women, the housewife lifestyle a tempting yet impossible dream
Today’s Asahi evening edition had a great op-ed today by author Tsunehiro Uno (age 32). He argues that with such a wide gap between wha....
8 Apr 9:48 pm  from  Mutant Frog   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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