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...Toshikatsu Matsuoka), the resignation of another (Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma) for a foolish remark on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and worst of all, the pension crisis. "The LDP has begun to melt down," gloats Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, a high-ranking DPJ member. A recent survey by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper pegged Abe's approval rating at an anemic 32%, and it's likely that the LDP and its ruling coalition partner, the New Komeito Party, will drop enough seats to lose control of the Upper House. The coalition would still remain in charge, thanks to its huge majority...
...Over the past year Japan's neighborhood has become more dangerous. North Korea conducted missile and nuclear tests; China's defense spending increased nearly 18% to $45 billion. Yet there has been no obvious shift in public sentiment favoring the unshackling of the military. A poll by the Yomiuri Shimbun last month found that 46% of Japanese supported constitutional change. That's slightly higher than the 39% who said they were opposed to change, but it was nine points down from 2006, making this the third consecutive year of declining support...
...South China Morning Post reported the previous day that the 35-year-old was living large in the Chinese territory an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun even ran a picture of Kim's distinctively pudgy progeny standing on a Macau street sporting sunglasses, a man purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's firstborn son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's probable successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita International Airport with a forged Dominican passport and then deported to China, Jong...
...South China Morning Post had reported the previous day that the 35-year-old was living large in the Chinese territory an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun had even run a picture of Kim's distinctively pudgy progeny standing on a Macau street sporting sunglasses, a man-purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's eldest son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's likely successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita Airport with a forged Dominican Republic passport and then deported...
...prominent postwar Prime Minister), and Abe himself has, in the past, fudged the issue of his country's responsibility for the Pacific war. Just how open that question remains in Japan was underscored last year by a lengthy investigation into responsibility for the war conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper. (Short answer: the Japanese military and government, but not the emperor.) The equivalent exercise in the U.S. would be the New York Times devoting weeks to an investigation of who was at fault in the Civil...