Ishiba twice ran and lost against Takaichi’s mentor, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister who was assassinated in 2022. His term is likely to mark a break with the more ideological rule of Abe and his successors. Ishiba favours a military balance with China coupled with renew...
Japan is a constitutional monarchy. Its Head of State is the Japanese Emperor who has nominal powers. It is the Japanese Prime Minister who wields the real power, but he has to command a majority in the Japanese Lower House to continue in power. Sovereignty rests in the Japanese people ...
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However, it still lives on in the minds of most ordinary people, some of whom reply that it is the prime minister who rules Japan, others that it is the bureaucracy, and still others that it is the mega-rich like Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of the firm that bears his name. It ...
This is, of course, silly, all of these economies plunged into economic crisis within a few months of each other, so they must have had something in common. In fact, the logic of catastrophe was pretty much the same in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea. (Japan is a very ...
That is a pyrrhic victory (付出极大代价而获得的胜利): the campaign is thought to have___to a recent uptick in covid-19. Daily cases reached a record of 2,680 on November 28th. Sug a Yoshihide, Japan's prime minister, recently announced that the subsidies would be___ in areas with ...
BANGKOK--Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who served almost nine years in office after seizing power in a 2014 military coup, said Tuesday that he is leaving politics.
Gun violence is extremely rare in Japan. The country has one of the world’s lowest rates of gun crime due to its strict laws on firearms ownership. Last year, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abewas shot deadin Nara city while delivering a campaign speech, in an...
Responding to his concerns, Tokyo 2020 organizers and Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said this week they would not rule out an Olympics without spectators if a state of emergency is reinstated in Tokyo. The capital shifted to a quasi-state of emergency on June 21, a day after the ...