No, he is not a goldfish, the Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said before he took office. Much rather he sees himself as Loach, a burrowing freshwater fish in the mud. This comparison also seems to apply his financial situation. Because Yoshihiko Noda must adorn himself with the title of the “poorest Prime Minister” for nearly three decades. Read the rest of this entry »

The era of Prime Minister Naoto Kan on 30 August 2011 to end. This he has told his cabinet. A day earlier, the Democratic Party, which has a majority in the House will elect their new president, and thus the new prime minister of Japan. It is the sixth Prime Minister within five years be.So far, it seemed a choice between the current Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda and the Economic and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda to be. Read the rest of this entry »

The Chinese edition of Global Times, published an essay by the beginning of August Jisi Wang, professor of international relations at the elite Peking University. In it he argues that the U.S. will remain so in the next 20 years the only superpower. Professor Wang mentions four factors that have contributed to the strength of the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Known The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Banri Kaieda in a television program that will provide shortly Tepco additional compensation payments to victims of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. First, the energy company had one million yen.Handle has been criticized because it does not take account the number of people living in a household and therefore unjust. Read the rest of this entry »

Prime Minister Naoto Kan sent shortly after the disaster of 11 March, some 100,000 soldiers in the war zone in northeastern Japan, where they still perform their daily work. They clear away the wreckage to help build the infrastructure back, lift from graves, looking for missing persons in the restricted area and assist in the cooling of the destroyed nuclear reactors in Fukushima. Read the rest of this entry »

In March 2010, the 45-year-old Ghanaian Abubakar Awudu Suraj at his deportation from Japan by the immigration authorities treated so badly that he died before the departure at Tokyo's Narita airport.Local police authority has about half a year later, 10 employees make reports to the immigration authorities, who were involved in the deportation, send the prosecutor. Read the rest of this entry »

Hideo Higashikokubaru was once under the tutelage of comedian Takeshi Kitano. In the game show Takeshi's Castle, he created in the late 1980s, a name in the Japanese entertainment world. The comedian but also as a whipping boy caused more than once for negative headlines. 1998, he was accused of having sexual intercourse with a minor in a brothel. Read the rest of this entry »

The 38-year-old Kazumi Inamura saw the end of November for a small political earthquake in Japan. Located in the city with 460,000 inhabitants in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, between Osaka and Kobe, she was elected with 54.3 percent share of the vote for mayor in the recent history of the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan would like the U.S., UK, Canada, the Netherlands and South Korea to introduce body scanners at airports. But before it can be started, the government in Tokyo to adapt the guidelines for security controls even this December, the Mainichi Shimbun. Because so far there is for the use of technical novelty or no legal basis. Read the rest of this entry »

For the time, stands as the new Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in the international public run, reform efforts from an entirely different direction. On 11 October 23 sent-known intellectuals and retired cadres of the Communist Party sent an open letter to the National People's Congress of China, which acted as an official parliament. Read the rest of this entry »