"The Abe government's warped historical view won't have any future. Only by reflecting upon history, can Japan achieve true reconciliation with its Asian neighbors," said Takakage Fujita.
Nagasaki, a southwest Japanese city, marked the 71st anniversary of atomic bombing on Tuesday, amid calls from ordinary japanese people for reflecting on the country's aggression history.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and newly elected Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike agreed on Thursday to set aside their differences and work together towards delivering a successful 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Games to be held in Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet on Wednesday, appointing a new defence minister with a history of hawkish views, in the third reshuffle since he returned as premier in December 2012.
The central government aims to accelerate preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics following the outcome of Sunday’s Tokyo gubernatorial election.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday ordered relevant ministries to beef up security at care facilities for disabled people, following Tuesday's knife attack at a care facility in eastern Japan leaving 19 people killed.
Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga would likely to retain their positions during the country's cabinet reshuffle to be held next month, local media reported Saturday.
On the face of it, Shinzo Abe and Natsuo Yamaguchi are the very best of political allies. The front pages of Japan’s newspapers were last week dominated by pictures of the two party leaders smiling and embracing at the scale of their shared victory in the previous day’s election for the Upper House of the Diet.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), fresh from a landslide win in Sunday's Upper House election, is reported to be planning to start talks on revising Japan's post-war Constitution later this year.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday told his economy minister to compile an economic stimulus package by the end of this month to revive a flagging economy in the face of sluggish private consumption and investment.
Nader Naeimi, who gave up on Japan at the start of the year, says he’s turned bullish again.
South Korea’s major dailies on Monday carried articles on their front pages on Japan’s House of Councillors election held on Sunday, with headlines focusing on the path being cleared for constitutional reform by the ruling coalition.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said his government will start to compile new economic stimulus measures to support the nation's economy and bolster domestic demand, in the first economic policy move following his ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led bloc's sweeping upper house election victory a day earlier.
Following a widely anticipated win for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition in Sunday's upper house election, the prime minister has tightened his grip on power by wooing the electorate with dubious pledges of economic salvation, but in fact bringing his goal of constitutional amendment closer to actualization.
With the Upper House election looming, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign strategy, which has been to oversell his economic policies while being evasive about his true political goal of revising the pacifist Constitution, has raised concerns of leading the voters astray and sending Japan down a dangerous road.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began an upper house election campaign on Wednesday with a pledge to rev-up the economy as surveys showed his ruling bloc ahead, despite doubts over Abe’s growth recipe and his push to revise the pacifist constitution.
Over 60 percent of Japanese public showed their doubt about the effectiveness of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy mix dubbed "Abenomics," said the latest nationwide poll released on Monday.
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