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Japan PM Fukuda Resigns
Seeded on Mon Sep 1, 2008 9:04 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation Monday night (Japan time.)
Seijigiri #46: Diet Session Ends, Fukuda's Future, and the Future of Immigration
Seeded on Tue Jul 1, 2008 6:11 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
In this edition of TPR's Japanese politics podcast, your hosts Garrett DeOrio and Ken Worsley take a look back at the big events of the ordinary Diet session that ended on Saturday.
Free Harold Pinter Tix in Tokyo
Tue Jul 1, 2008 6:08 AM EDT
Should any Newsviner be interested, Tokyo's fantastic Black Stripe Theater is putting on Nobel laureate Harold Pinter's The Homecoming this weekend - July 4th, 5th, and 6th, in Azabu-Juban.
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First Pitcher to Get Saves in All Major Leagues
Seeded on Tue Jul 1, 2008 6:00 AM EDT (Tsubamegun: The Tokyo Yakult Swallows)
Shingo Takatsu became the first pitcher to get saves at the top levels in all three major pro baseball leagues - MLB, NPB, and now KBO.
Seijigiri #45: Could a Cabinet Reshuffle Help Fukuda's Approval Ratings? Problems with the Cabinet, Road Taxes, 59ing in the Diet, and Koizumi is back on the scene
Seeded on Fri May 23, 2008 8:28 PM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Female Leader for Japan, Fukuda's Falling Popularity, & Navy Crimes
Seeded on Fri May 23, 2008 8:21 PM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Seijigiri #44: The Gas Tax Vote, the LDP's Trouble With Elderly Voters, the Olympic Torch Relay
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:15 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Seijigiri #43: Diplomatic Affairs, Fukuda's Falling Approval Ratings, and "Gridlock" in the Diet
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:11 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Seijigiri #42: The Pension Fiasco, Continued Hunt for a BOJ Governor, Sentaku and North Korea
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:09 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Seijigiri #41: The Budget is Passed, and Fukuda is Feeling the Pressure
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:04 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Seijigiri #40: The MSDF heads out, Gasoline and Capital Gains Taxes, Fukuda's Policy Speech, and the 2008 National Budget
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:01 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
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Rape and Murder by US Servicemen in Japan and the Crimes' Impact
Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:29 AM EDT
On the night of Wednesday, March 19th, 22-year-old US Navy Seaman Olatunbosun Ugbogu, AWOL from the cruiser USS Cowpens, which had left its base in Yokosuka about a week before, left a female acquaintance's apartment in central Tokyo's Shinagawa ward with a kitchen knife he'd lif …
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Power Struggles in the Diet, A Strong Yen, Whaling Season Opens, and Fingerprinting: TPR News for Monday, November 26, 2007
Seeded on Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:32 AM EST (Trans-Pacific Radio)
The audio version of the regular update on new from Japan. Including fingerprinting foreigners, Fukuda's first visit to the US, the hunting of humpback whales, and much, much more.
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Resigns
Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:02 AM EDT
It had to happen sometime, right? Well, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has resigned, possibly moving over the LDP Secretary General position, rcently filled by former Foreign Minister Taro Aso.
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Japanese Pro Baseball: An Introduction
Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:07 PM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
"If I ever saw myself saying I was excited about going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'd be lying."
Japanese Human Rights Activist Blasts Head of Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 11:40 PM EDT (Debito.org)
Normally I would shout "congratulations" from the rooftops at the news: The momentous appointment of a non-Japanese to be director of an important Japanese institution. Particularly when said institution is tasked with keeping the faith on with an important international iss …
Mr. Hiroshima-san: American Appointed to Head Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 11:33 PM EDT (Japan Times)
In a sense, it is the ultimate irony: The man appointed to oversee the memorial to victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 by an American B-29 aircraft is . . . an American.
Japan's Leading Human Rights Activist Talks About Foreign Labor & Duran Duran
Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 11:26 PM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
The guys at Trans-Pacific Radio sit down with Debito Arudou, Japan's leading human rights activist, to talk about his work with and research into the conditions facing foreign workers in Japan, especially Brazilians and Southeast Asians, and, of course, what needs to be done to g …
DC Madam's Japan Connection
Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 2:04 PM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
Listen, if you're going to invite call girls to the Consular reception, that's one thing, but at least don't have them call the office. Or maybe being sent overseas is great if you're in the Japanese foreign service.
WWII Sex Slave, 'Comfort Women,' Resolution Passes: Why That's Not Bad
Thu Aug 2, 2007 11:11 PM EDT
Originally published at Trans-Pacific Radio.
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In Defense of an Idiot
Wed Jul 4, 2007 2:09 AM EDT
In Defense of ex-Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma and his A-Bomb Remark (Originally published at Trans-Pacific Radio.)
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English School NOVA ordered to suspend part of its business: The beginning of the end
Seeded on Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:38 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
Some Background: NOVA is the largest player in the English-teaching business in Japan, the largest market for that industry in the world. A sizable percentage of Japan's English teachers and English-speaking foreigners had their first job in Japan with NOVA.
China Becomes Japan's No.1 Trade Partner: Financial 2006 figures show deepening economic interdependence
Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 11:03 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
China became Japan's largest trading partner in fiscal 2006, which ended on March 31, replacing the United States for the first time since the end of the Second World War, according to preliminary figures released on Wednesday by Japan's Finance Ministry.
New energy to Japan's diplomacy
Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 11:00 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
The past week has seen an unprecedented flurry of top-level Japanese diplomacy aimed at ensuring the resource-poor nation's energy security through stable supplies of oil and other resources.
Roadblocks to Japan's Biofuel Goal
Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 10:56 AM EDT (Trans-Pacific Radio)
Commentary: The goal of saving 500,000 kiloliters of crude oil by 2010 is not easy to reach
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