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April 15, 2011
Japan
Warning: Political Bickering Dangerous to Japan’s Health
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan reacts he he feels an earthquake in the upper house of parliament in Tokyo on March 11, 2011. (Toru Hanai/Courtesy Reuters) It has been a month since the terrible…
January 3, 2011
China
Predictions for the New Year
Revellers take part in New Year celebrations in Hong Kong's Times Square. (Tyrone Siu/Courtesy Reuters) Liz already handled the top stories of 2010, so how about a few predictions for Asia for 2011…
September 9, 2010
Japan
The DPJ’s Leadership Contest
No two candidates could present such a different image for the identity of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The citizen activist-turned-bureaucratic reformer-turned-party president has been cha…
July 11, 2016
Japan
Voters Give Abe an Opening for Constitutional Debate
This blog post is part of a series entitled Will Japanese Change Their Constitution?, in which leading experts discuss the prospects for revising Japan’s postwar constitution. As elections go, ye…
June 1, 2011
Japan
No Confidence in Tokyo?
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends a special committee on post-quake reconstruction at the lower house in Tokyo May 31, 2011. Unpopular PM Kan on Tuesday refused to step down in the face of a …
