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Japan’s ruling party heads for election landslide

December 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ken Moritsugu Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s ruling coalition was headed for a resounding victory in lower house elections Sunday, firming up Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hold on power as he prepares to push forward on several politically difficult fronts.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, Associated Press, Buddhist-backed Komei, Elaine Kurtenbach, Emily Wang, Finance Minister Taro Aso, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hiroshi Yamada, Internal Affairs Ministry, Liberal Democratic Party, Liberal Democrats, Mari Yamaguchi, NHK, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 52 | December 20 - December 26, Yoshiko Takahashi, japan

Japan in recession as economy contracts 1.6 pct

November 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Elaine Kurtenbach AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan reported Monday that its economy contracted at a real annual rate of 1.6 percent in July-September, in a second straight quarterly decline that returned the country to recession.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2014, 2015, Elaine Kurtenbach, GDP, Prime Minister Abe, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Vol 33 No 48 | November 22 - November 28, attention, commentary, japan

Review confirms basis of Japan’s sex slave apology

July 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) – A Japanese panel confirmed the validity of a study that led to Japan’s landmark 1993 apology for forcing Asian women into wartime prostitution, even as South Korea blasted the review as a move that “picks again at the painful wounds” of victims.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, China, East Asia, Elaine Kurtenbach, Foreign Ministry, Jen Psaki, Keiichi Tadaki, Kono Statement, Noh Kwang-il, South Koreans, Taiwan, Tokyo, Top Japanese, United States, Vol 33 No 29 | July 12 - July 18, Yoshihide Suga

Japan’s ruling bloc wins upper house elections

July 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Malcolm Foster The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition won a comfortable majority in the upper house of parliament in elections July 21, giving it control of both chambers and a mandate to press ahead with difficult economic reforms. The win is an endorsement of the Liberal Democratic […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, China, Chinese, Elaine Kurtenbach, Kyodo News, LDP, Liberal Democratic Party, Mari Yamaguchi, NHK, NTV, Naohisa Hayashi, New Komeito, Shinzo Abe, South Korea, Vol 32 No 31 | July 27 - August 2, japan

Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery

May 18, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Cabinet Secretariat, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, China, Elaine Kurtenbach, Far East, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Imperial Army, Japan Communist Party, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Tomoko Kami, Vol 32 No 21 | May 18 - May 24, WWII, Yasukuni Shrine

South East Asia and Japan get closer over China concerns

January 26, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tran Van Minh The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Japan’s prime minister promised closer security and economic ties with Vietnam on Wednesday, bolstering an alliance that shares concerns over rising Chinese territorial assertiveness in regional waters.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Beijing, Chinese, East China Sea, Elaine Kurtenbach, HANOI, Indonesia, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South East Asia, Southeast Asian, Thailand, Tokyo, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Vol 32 No 5 | January 26 - February 1, japan

British and Japanese scientists win Nobel

October 13, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Malcolm Ritter and Karl Ritter The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Doug Melton, Elaine Kurtenbach, George Daley, Gladstone Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, John Hardy, Karl Ritter, Karolinska Institute, Kyoto University, Magdalene College, Nobel Prize, President Barack Obama, San Francisco, Shinya Yamanaka, University College London, Vol 31 No 42 | October 13 - October 19, japan

Japanese, Chinese ships exchange warnings

September 23, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Malcolm Foster THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO, JAPAN (AP) — Chinese and Japanese government ships exchanged warnings Friday, Sept. 14, in waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea, while Tokyo called on Beijing to protect its citizens amid anti-Japan protests and reported assaults in China.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Chinese Marine Surveillance, Diaoyu Islands, East China Sea, Elaine Kurtenbach, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, Japanese Coast Guard, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Mari Yamaguchi, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, State-controlled China Central Television, Tokyo, Vol 31 No 39 | September 22 - September 28, Yasuhiko Oku, Yasukuni Shrine, Yoshiyuki Terakado

China tries to stamp out ‘Jasmine Revolution’

February 24, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a show of force Sunday, Feb. 20, to squelch a mysterious online call for a “Jasmine Revolution,”

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Algeria, Associated Press, Bahrain, Beijing, China Mobile, Egypt, Elaine Kurtenbach, Extensive Internet, Jasmine Revolution, Libya, Middle Easterners, President Hu Jintao, Tech-savvy Chinese, Vol 30 No 9 | February 26 - March 4, Yemen, attention, communication

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