News & Information (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING, ADDING INFO) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday he will convene the next Diet session in mid-September, hoping to work on such issues as extending ……Read more
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Friday chose to stay away from Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, honoring both Japan's war dead and war criminals.But three state ministers visited the facility on the day marking the 63rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.Fukuda, who had earlier indicated he would not visit the controversial shrine, instead placed flowers at a nearby national cemetery honoring...
Trans-Pacific Radio (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
The 47th edition of Seijigiri is about a week late, but has some extra content to make up for that. Co-hosts Garrett DeOrio and Ken Worsley begin by taking a look at the recent reshuffling of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s cabinet, and try to project just how this new group might perform. A few ministers [...]
News & Information (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING, ADDING INFO) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday he wants to make a decision Tuesday on a date for convening the next extraordinary Diet session that will…Read more
News & Information (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday that there is unlikely to be a change in the fight against terrorism, after Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf announced his……Read more
AMPONTAN (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
THREE WEEKS AGO, Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo reshuffled his Cabinet and chose Yasuoka Okiharu to replace Hatoyama Kunio as the Minister of Justice. Significant change is underway in Japan’s justice system, and an even more radical restructuring will occur in the near future. A new system in which citizen jurors join a panel of trial judges [...]
NB TORY LADY (Free subscription) | yesterday
quoted in it's entirety Forget George Bush, “Yasuo Fukuda clone” is the new stereotype The Liberal press loves to link Stephen Harper to US president George Bush because he has become the whipping boy for America’s stumbling economy and the unpopular war in Iraq. Leaving aside whether this criticism is justified, this is an age-old political trick of trying to saddle a political opponent with the stigma...
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukudatold reporters Tuesday that he will convene the next Diet session in mid-September, but the opening date will be determined early next week. The decision came after Fukuda held a meeting earlier in the day with government officials and senior members of the coalition bloc. [...]
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008 | World
Everyone will tell you that the quality of art you can see or buy at the 798 art area in Beijing is getting scarcer by the day. Yet, the ex-factory district remains a unique and irresistible place. There's even a new media art gallery
News & Information (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by……Read more
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Reuters - Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo’s past militarism. Read the full story
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
DPA Tokyo, Aug 15 (DPA) Nearly 5,000 people are expected to gather at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan arena Friday to commemorate the country’s 3.1 million war dead and the end of World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko were to attend the ceremony. Meanwhile, Farm Minister Seiichi Ota, Justice Minister Okiharu [...]
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo’s past militarism.
News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Reuters - Japan marked the anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo's past militarism.
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday,......
