To ‘stand on Taiwanese soil’: An interview with Taiwan’s top diplomat
Joseph Wu shares his thoughts on Tokyo-Taipei cooperation, TSMC semiconductors, Japan's new defense posture and the future of relations with Beijing.
View ArticleScience far from conclusive on low-level radiation risks
The March 11 nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant has transformed what used to be a long-standing academic debate into an urgent issue ...
View ArticlePrestigious school seen as ticket to rise to the top of political ladder
Newly appointed Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda may compare himself to a "dojo" (loach), but in reality he is an elite politician with a diploma from ...
View ArticleDPJ-only poll, but of national import
The Democratic Party of Japan will hold a midterm presidential election Monday to pick a successor to Prime Minister Naoto Kan.Among the seven possible candidates, ...
View ArticleAre worries over meat warranted?
About 1,500 cows that were fed hay containing radioactive cesium in excess of the government limit were found to have been shipped from Fukushima and ...
View ArticleTrack record of coalition plans not always grand
Amid the chaos breaking out in Nagata-cho since Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced his intention to resign, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan is once ...
View ArticleSeveral factors driving plan to double sales tax
The government on Thursday announced a social security reform plan that includes a proposal to gradually double the consumption tax to 10 percent by fiscal ...
View ArticleHow debt, tax hike will affect reconstruction
To finance reconstruction in areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, ideas have been floated for issuing debt or raising the consumption tax . ...
View ArticleWhy so many aftershocks? Why so large?
A record number of powerful aftershocks have continued to jolt the already battered prefectures of Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki after the 9.0-magnitude March 11 earthquake.The ...
View ArticleOkinawa’s referendum on relocating the U.S. Futenma base to Henoko: Why now...
On Sunday, Okinawa Prefecture’s 41 cities, towns and villages held a referendum on whether to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan, in ...
View ArticleQ&A: How to survive this year’s scorching summer in Japan
This year’s heat wave is again lethal, having already killed over 30 people and sent more than 10,000 to hospitals since July 9 due to ...
View ArticleOverwork deaths put spotlight on Japan’s ‘black companies’
The Japanese have no clear term to describe the concept of work-life balance, but they do have one to describe the notion of dying for ...
View ArticleTokyo’s safety claims for Toyosu fish market cleanup getting harder to sell
On Sept. 10, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike revealed that the people in charge of the soil remediation work for the Toyosu market, the relocation site ...
View ArticleRenho nationality accusations spur debate on dual citizenship
Renho, one of the three candidates vying for the top slot in the Sept. 15 Democratic Party leadership election, has repeatedly denied speculation that she ...
View ArticleLDP weighs leader’s term limits as Abe angles to stay in power
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is expected to kick off discussions as soon as next month over whether to revise internal rules to allow Prime ...
View ArticleMasuzoe clings to office as pressure mounts over funds scandal
Japanese Communist Party representatives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly announced Monday the party’s decision to submit a no-confidence motion against Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe, which ...
View ArticleCalls to revise SOFA in wake of Okinawa murder unlikely to bear fruit
As a result of the recent murder of a 20-year-old woman in Okinawa, allegedly at the hands of a U.S. base worker and former marine, ...
View ArticleQuestions and answers: The Kumamoto earthquakes
The series of huge earthquakes and aftershocks that have been rattling wide parts of Kumamoto and Oita prefectures since Thursday have raised fears that other ...
View ArticleJapan’s electricity shake-up gives power to the people
Japan’s electricity market receives a fundamental shake-up on Friday, with the introduction of greater competition for households and small businesses. Until now, regional utilities have ...
View ArticleHow a U.N. committee riled Japan with its criticism of women’s rights
Recent recommendations issued to Japan by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women sparked a sharp response from Tokyo.The U.N. body ...
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