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...best way to do that. "The Iraq issue is not just about the [military] presence in Iraq, but it's a symbolic diplomatic issue that tests the direction and the competency of the DPJ on foreign policy," says Etsushi Tanifuji, professor of political science at Tokyo's Waseda University...
...pension system. Whether or not Abe resigns, the Japanese government will have to put aside its grander ambitions and make pocketbook issues a priority. "Abe couldn't figure out how to balance the people's interests with his own," says Etsushi Tanifuji, deputy dean of politics at Tokyo's Waseda University. Fortunately for Japan, the democratic system has a way of redressing that imbalance - it's called an election...
...Tokyo that the issue took a clear backseat to denuclearization at the talks - and that the U.S. raised the possibility of removing North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states, something Japan vociferously opposes. "Japan felt betrayed," says Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor of international relations at Tokyo's Waseda University. If Washington ignores the abduction issue, he adds, "the Japanese public will have doubts about the vitality of the U.S.-Japan alliance...
...between urban and rural regions, but he insists on cutting public spending," says Nihon University's Iwai. "There are certain inherent contradictions in what he says, and he hasn't addressed them." Adds Etsushi Tanifuji, director of the Institute for Research in Contemporary Political and Economic Affairs at Waseda University: "We'll see Abe's competence as a leader at the end of the year, when budget-drafting time comes...
That’s not all. Harvard Stadium hosted the first game between Japanese college football teams in 1991, with Keio University edging Waseda University by a 21-19 margin...