‘Politics’ Archives
America to be Leader of Asia ?
President Obama's visit to Asian countries is looming. Today, a news service reported as a high official'scomment that President Obama would declare the USA would become the leader of Asia in 21st century. Let us confirm again, what would he mean " the leader of Asia" ? America is situated in American continent, Not in Asia. Or could [...]
10% unemployment rate in America
This it not exactly a Japanese topic but it's also important for Japan if American economy goes down. First of all, 10% unemployment rate means a really serious social matter, which has 1 no job person out of 10 people. 1 person isn't working if I see 10 people on the street, if I extremely express how it's serious. In addition, the [...]
Internet Election may be introduced
Internet election system may be adopted soon in Japan. Japanese politics had a exciting and dramatic changing time 2 month ago by new diet member election. For spreading opinion or promotion of candidates, news paper or TV have always been the best and most influential method in the past Japanese election. Probably this is not that [...]
Ex President Bush Appeared in Tokyo with Koizumi, ex-Prime Minister of Japan
Today ex-US president, George Bush, arrived in Japan. He seems to have been invited by a Japanese public political party. He went to Tokyo baseball dome and pitched an opening ball as Japan series opening ceremony. Probably many people got surprised to see him on the pitcher's mound. His trip to Japan was not announced enough, I [...]
Asian countries future
Recently nobody would deny that China would become the world leader soon. The USA, Japan, and many of the European powers are already in the moody period of time after enjoying long time of prosperity. India, Russia, and Brazil are also expected to become the next economic leaders with China, but as objective observation, Chine seems to be [...]
Cigarette Tax
Japanese government today announced about the possibility of increase of cigarette tax in the near future. For smokers in Japan, this news is head-aching again. Often this tax is discussed in the diet of Japan, and often the new tax is activated. However, they say that Japanese cigarette price is still very low compared to the other [...]
Prime Minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama
Prime minister Yukio Hatoyama still has high support rate by Japanese nation after 2 months since dramatic election day. He says Japan needs to face new systems of politics, especially the old style of bureaucratic must be changed to politician leading decision making system, he says. What he says is simply natural thing. Nation [...]
Friendship between the USA and Japan
// The USA has several military bases in Japan. The biggest one is in Okinawa, the small southern island of Japan. Okinawa is a resort place of Japan with beautiful ocean andbeach, good food, kind people and warm weather. It's like Hawaii. Also like Hawaii, Okinawa has a large size of American base. The USA uses this base after the 2nd [...]
House of counsilors’ by-election was held today
// Today, by-election for 2 members of house of councilors were held in Japan. As we expected, new leading party's candidates won in both positions. Still the national popularity vote for the new government of Japan is very high, around 70% supporting rate, so this result is not a big surprise. This result also means that the [...]
Democratic Party of Japan
// Japan's new leading party, Democratic Party, is now faced with fiscal plan discussion. For a long time, Japanese fiscal problem is always pointed out, and large fiscal deficits reduction is an urgent matter for the government. But if the new leading party, Democratic Party, chooses the way to cut the total budget for next year, [...]
