• About
  • Events
  • Community Calendar
  • Advertise
  • Subscriptions
  • Foundation
  • Contact
  • Seattle Chinese Post

Northwest Asian Weekly

  • Community
    • Names in the News
    • Local
    • Business
    • Pictorials
    • Obituaries
  • Nation
  • World
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Columns
    • On the Shelf
    • At the Movies
    • A-POP!
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • The Layup Drill
    • Travel
    • Wayne’s Worlds
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentary
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Astrology
  • Classifieds
  • Community Calendar
You are here: Home / Archives for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

PM Abe dined at Salty’s

April 26, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Yoichiro Yamada, the Consul General of Japan in Seattle, confirmed to the Northwest Asian Weekly that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Seattle last week. The Prime Minister dined at Salty’s in West Seattle for lunch while his airplane was being refueled. He reportedly enjoyed his meal.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, SALTY'S, VOL 37 NO 18 | APRIL 28 - MAY 4

Japanese lawmaker criticized for linking Obama to slaves

February 28, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese lawmaker is being criticized for saying President Barack Obama was a descendant of Black slaves and so would have been an unthinkable presidential choice in America’s early history. Kazuya Maruyama, a lawyer-turned-lawmaker in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party, apologized hours after making the remark […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, Democratic Party, Kazuya Maruyama, Kenya, President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, United States, Vol 35 No 9 | February 27 - March 4, Yosuke Kamiyama, japan

EDITORIAL: Good job, Abe

December 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

It took a lot of bravado for Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to acknowledge and apologize for Japan’s war-time role in South Korean “comfort women” crimes. Why is this acknowledgement such a big deal? First, some history from the (somewhat) reliable source Wikipedia: “Comfort women were women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2016, China, Chinese, Ikuhiko Hata, Imperial Japanese Army, Philippines, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Mothers, students join Japan’s protests over security bills

September 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Mothers holding their children’s hands stood in the sprinkling rain, holding up anti-war placards, while students chanted slogans against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his defense policies to the beat of a drum. Japan is seeing new faces join the ranks of protesters typically made up of […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Abe Cabinet, Associated Press, China, Daisuke Motoki, Etsuko Matsuda, International Christian University, Mothers Against War, Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Self Defense Force, Senshu University, Stephen Nagy, TV, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 37 | September 5 - September 11, Yukio Okamoto, attention, japan, social media

Japan scraps Olympic logo over plagiarism allegation

September 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers on Tuesday decided to scrap the logo for the 2020 Games following another allegation its Japanese designer might have used copied materials. Reversing their earlier support for designer Kenjiro Sano against allegations of plagiarizing the design, the organizers said the decision came after new […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, Belgium, International Olympic Committee, Kenjiro Sano, NHK, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Rugby World Cup, Tokyo Gov, Toshio Muto, Vol 34 No 37 | September 5 - September 11, Yoichi Masuzoe, japan

Man arrested over drone at Japanese prime minister’s office

May 3, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have arrested a man who admitted to landing a drone with low-level radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s nuclear energy policy, officials said Saturday. Tokyo metropolitan police said Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, turned himself in to authorities late […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Fukushima Dai-ichi, NHK, Obama, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo, United States, Vol 34 No 19 | May 2 - May 8, White House, Yasuo Yamamoto, japan

China tells Japan to set down historical baggage

March 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Christopher Bodeen Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister renewed calls Sunday for senior Japanese leaders to abandon any attempt to water down their nation’s guilt over its World War II aggression against China and others. Looking ahead to this year’s 70th anniversary of the end of the war, Wang Yi told reporters […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Asia, Associated Press, Beijing, China, Chinese, Entrepreneur Yoshito Hori, Masashi Nishihara, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korea, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20, Wang Yi, japan

Japanese paper regrets use of term ‘sex slaves’

December 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s biggest newspaper apologized in print Friday for using the term “sex slaves” in its English-language edition to describe Asian women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Asia, Associated Press, Korean, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korea, Vol 33 No 50 | December 6 - December 12, 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

Radioactive groundwater at Fukushima nears Pacific

August 31, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, 2015, Atsunao Marui, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Iwaki City, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ken Buesseler, Masakazu Yabuki, Masayuki Ono, Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Shinji Kinjo, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toyoshi Fuketa, Vol 32 No 36 | August 31 - September 6, Yoshimi Hitosugi, Zengo Aizawa

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube


Find us on Issuu!

Subscribe to our e-news

© 2022 NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
412 MAYNARD AVE. S., SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-223-5559 | INFO@NWASIANWEEKLY.COM