About a month ago, when Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan as ceded. Since then, it is quiet around the man. Naoto Kan, who is also MP for the ruling Democratic Party in the House, has taken in a literal sense, a time-out. As the Swiss Thomas Koehler also the ex-prime minister is traveling on foot in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

6 months have passed since the triple disaster of 11 Passed in March 2011. Since then has taken place in Japan's population, a change of opinion. To date, according to various surveys are about 75 percent of Japanese oppose the construction of new nuclear power plants. As a result of the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima and regular maintenance works are now only 11 of 54 reactors in operation. Read the rest of this entry »

The train accident from Wenzhou and other shocking events have shown it: Micro-blogging service. Liu Qi, secretary of the Beijing city inspected, but recently the headquarters of the Chinese Sina and Youku and Youtube version here expressed an implicit warning of how the news page Aboluo Xinwenwang reported. Read the rest of this entry »

Not only Yoshihiko Noda was elected prime minister a highlight. Also for the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, it was a historic election. For the first time is one of its graduates to the Prime Minister was appointed. Here, the political elite has been out for a few years arrived in the highest circles of power. Read the rest of this entry »

After various demonstrations to a “Jasmine Revolution” in China and the ongoing protests in the Middle East, the government responded. According to the BBC Chinese and other Chinese news portals say they increasingly as one measure among many, the Internet and centralized administrative control. Specifically for this purpose a new body was created, the State Internet Information Office. Read the rest of this entry »

The term jasmine revolt and the events in North Africa may presently not be too familiar in China. Because the Chinese government is trying by all means to prevent the transmission of communications in this regard. Too great is the fear that similar problems in China as the rising price of food and unemployment could also lead to revolts. Read the rest of this entry »

Prime Minister Naoto Kan's wife Nobuko would do everything differently, they would again choose to start from scratch. “I've lived this life. It would not be interesting to see that same thing “to do it again, she remarked dryly against the Japanese media. The 65-year-old is not a woman who persuaded her husband to hear. Read the rest of this entry »

/ / China's tourists come to South Korea without a visa does not. Similar to Japan, however, Seoul has eased visa requirements for its neighbor. For the tourists from the Middle Kingdom are now considered financially strong and very eager to buy. For the island of Jeju in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula, Seoul has been granted approval in February 2008, a visa for Chinese tourists. Read the rest of this entry »

/ / Australian anti-whaling activists of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have joined together in the Antarctic with a Japanese whaling ships. The activists threw stink bombs on the ships and were in turn attacked with water cannons.”It was deadly and beautiful,” it said in a statement on the website of the anti-whaling activists. Read the rest of this entry »

Tokyo city council has approved a controversial bill to sexual images in manga and anime. Both major parties, the DPJ and the LDP supported the proposal. In future, the sale of works that “criminal sexual acts represent exaggerated or glorified” regulated by the city or be banned altogether. The manga industry is also being invited to the first April to submit proposals for self-regulatory measures. Read the rest of this entry »