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...Representatives election. A win of 320 seats would give the party a two-thirds majority and the power to pass bills without the support of other parties or even the upper house. Meanwhile, the ruling LDP party is slated to drop to about 100 seats, according to the daily Asahi Shimbun- an anemic one-third of what it held before Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved the lower house and called elections in July. The expected reshuffle points to the DPJ's strength not only in cities, but also in rural areas that were long considered the seat...
...world's most avid newspaper readers, despite a dip in circulation over the past couple of years. "One would be hard-pressed to find another country in the world where newspaper companies are publishing several million issues a day," says Yoichi Funabashi, editor in chief of the Asahi Shimbun, the world's second largest daily (after its rival the Yomiuri Shimbun) with more than 8 million subscribers. Nonetheless, publishers know they cannot count on younger consumers. The Asahi Shimbun is helping launch a paid service for thumb-tapping readers who want to access news through their cell phones. The multimedia...
...theme are the norm in Japan. American beer drinkers partial to Budweiser basically face a binary choice: Bud or Bud Lite, although they might occasionally find such niche-market products as Bud Select or Bud Extra. By contrast, when a Japanese beer drinker goes to buy a can of Asahi at an average convenience store, he has to choose between Super Dry, Premium, Prime Time, Black, Stout, Orion Draft, Northern Style, Clear, Flavorful, Gubi Draft, New Draft 3 and Ginger Draft, among others. And that's just this month's selection. (See pictures of Japanese design's greatest hits...
...economy when it can help provide a more equal playing field. “It’s an honor to have such an intelligent president with such a clear idea of democracy that economics is not everything and people are important,” said Kenzo J. Asahi, a native of Chile and a second-year masters student in public administration at the Kennedy School, who attended the lotteried event. A former surgeon, pediatrician, and epidemiologist, Bachelet served as Chile’s minister of health and minister of defense before being elected president. While a medical school student...
...appreciation of the likely costs of unification, dread a collapse of the North - and that Kim has shown himself able to use his possession of nuclear weapons as a way to coerce enough foreign tribute to preserve his regime. As Yoichi Funabashi, the editor in chief of Japan's Asahi Shimbun says in his fine new book The Peninsula Question: "The people of North and South Korea have confronted each other for more than half a century, figuratively dying to be unified but scared to death of being unified...