‘Politics’ Archives
Beauty Queen of City Council ? Yuri Fujikawa
Recenty I found an funny article among news. There is a middle size city, Hachinohe, in the northern part of Japan. Its population is about 300,000. There is nothing particular to tell about this city and not such an interesting travel spot either. But recently this city is a little closed up by media because of a menber of city [...]
Futemma, Okinawa base goes where ?
US -JAPAN relation is not as good as the past 50 years. It's often said recently because of the issue of removal of Okinawa Military Base of the USA. Japan and the USA once agreed to move it to the new place in the man-made ocean base in FUTEMMA of OKINAWA. This agreement was made by the previous Japanese leading party, Leberal Democratic [...]
New Minister of Finance, Naoto Kan said 95 JPY is ideal
Today, the new Japanese Minister of Finance, Naoto Kan, placed a press conference for the first time after he started this role. Naoto Kan said that 95JPY to 1 dollar is the right level for Japanese yen. It's not such a surprising word but I'm really amazed by the speed of time of ours. Some years ago, Japanese Yen was around 120 yen to 1 [...]
Japanese Minister of Finance, Fujii, resigned today
Minister of Finance, Hirohisa Fujii, submitted his paper of resignation to Prime Minister, Hatoyama, today and it was accepted. I think he is one of the most capable person in this cabinet, but he will go. It's a sad news but there seems to be many hidden reasons about his decision. Japanese leading party, Democratic Party, is a totally [...]
Poland & Japan relation
This topic is totally from my personal taste. It's not a news topic but my thought about Poland. Without any reasons,I often think Poland may be close to Japan in human nature or nationality. That's because I have a friend from Poland and she has a similar emotional character as we Japanese have. She doesn't know anything about Japan, [...]
AMERICA is a Asia-Pacific Country by President Obama
President Obama is really popular in the world. I'm not sure if he is still in his own country, the USA. Anyway, he came to Japan and talked with the Emperor. After that, he soon joined the APEC meeting in Singapore. What a busy person ! One thing we again noticed is that Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama said America would be welcomed to [...]
Crazy Obama City of Japan
There is a small city called Obama in Japan. The pronunciation is perfectly the same as the President Obama, although a little intonation differnce exist. This Obama city has been crazy about president Obama since the election race of American President. Certainly, the promotion effect for this city might be very big. But as far as I [...]
OBAMA arrives in Japan on Friday the 13th
President OBAMA arrives in Japan on Friday the 13th. I don't think this date was intentionally selected but even if an accidental choice, this means a little bit of situation of Japan and US recently. For us Japanese, Friday the 13th doesn't mean a lot. We just know a little about it as Westerner's bad luck day and as the title of the hit [...]
No pressure Japan – US relation
Sheila Smith of CFR seems to have told something like "American preaching deplomacy to Japan with pressure should end", Japanese news reported as a quotation of Washington post. I'm not sure about Japan's future with the USA. But one thing the Japanese often think recently about the US - Japan relationship is " why is America always forcing [...]
JAPAN and CHINA as NO.1 relationship
In Japan, nearly 3 months ago leading political party of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party lost it's members and fell down from the leading party. Now the leading party is Democratic Party. Prime Minister of Japan is Yukio Hatoyama, but some say the most powerful influence in the party is Ichiro Ozawa, the chief representative of the party. [...]
