A secret nuclear agreement between Japan and the USA has surfaced in the possession of the family of the late Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, former. The secret agreement allowing the United States, in exceptional situations to introduce nuclear weapons to Okinawa.Sato had the document signed in 1969 with Richard Nixon and kept in his desk, told the Yomiuri Shimbun. Read the rest of this entry »

The former South Korean Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook has been arrested on Friday. She is suspected, believed to have $ 50,000 bribe. The 65-year-old politician denies the allegations, to have accepted money from a businessman.The prosecution left because of a statement by Han Kwak Young-wook arrest. Read the rest of this entry »

The Japanese Emperor Akihito today is Tuesday, Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping received, although not the audience for the application as required by the protocol provided one months in advance had been. The Imperial Household Department, which plans the activities of the emperor, had rejected the first visit by referring to the protocol. Read the rest of this entry »

The Japanese Government has today Tuesday on a 7.2 trillion yen expires.Economists remained skeptical about the effect of the stimulus package amounting to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product, because the Japanese economy is heavily dependent on demand in export markets. “That helps the economy a bit, but is still far from addressing the fundamental problems that come up to Japan, as the weaknesses in the global economy and deflation,” said Yasunari Ueno from Mizuho Securities. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan suffers from the problem of an aging society and low birthrate. To combat this trend, the country desperately needs more immigration in the coming decades. But this topic is virtually taboo in Japanese politics. The island nation has always maintains a restrictive immigration policy. Too great is the fear that rise in a mass immigration, crime rates and falling wages could. Read the rest of this entry »

“The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are engraved in the memory of our world and I would feel honored to these two cities have to be able to visit during my presidency,” U.S. President Barack Obama told the Japanese television station NHK. Obama will be this Friday and Saturday with the visit to Tokyo to start his trip to Asia. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan intends 13 percent of its rice stocks to make available, to create together with the neighboring Asian countries, rice reserves. The common stocks are designed to counteract the strong fluctuations in the supply of rice.250,000 tons of rice wants Japan to share the system that ends no earlier than next year in force, to counter possible supply shortages in East Asia, Shirara Shiokawa, director of the department of trade in rice from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture said in an interview with Bloomberg. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of the historic election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan, 30 August have also made many women sit on the Japanese Lower House. Many of the 26 female DPJ members are young, attractive and politically inexperienced. Ozawa relies on Girl PowerThe Japanese press calls them the “Ozawa Girls” because the former party leader Ichiro Ozawa had the idea of ​​young candidates against unspent colorless old LDP politician to send into the race. Read the rest of this entry »

After positive discussions with Chinese President Hu Jintao has met the new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama in New York for a brief interview.Sensitive issues such as Japan's role in the war on terror or the realignment of the U.S. military were left outside in the conversation before. Read the rest of this entry »

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak invited Japanese Emperor Akihito, Seoul next year to visit. “Akihitos visit to Seoul would have a great importance, because the two countries thus excite the past behind them and maintain a future-oriented relationship,” Lee said in an interview with the Yonhap news agency and Kyodo. Read the rest of this entry »