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New Komeito (JP)

Type: Organization

Name: New Komeito (JP) (Komeito, New Komeito)

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

INSIGHTS into the WORLD / Explore realistic ways to revise Constitution

Shinichi KitaokaPollsters in Japan typically ask people whether they approve of or object to constitutional amendments, indicating that the time is not yet ripe to revise the nation's supreme law. Unless the Japanese are asked to say yes or no to revising ... [Published The Japan News - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Liberal Democratic Party (JP), Diet, New Komeito (JP)

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 2 reports

Tokyo assembly poll foreshadows result of upper house elections

The Yomiuri Shimbun The results of the June 23 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election, with about 10 million voters, will be a harbinger of results in the House of Councillors election scheduled for next month.A major issue in the metropolitan assembly ... [Published The Japan News - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Tokyo, Elections, Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 09 2013 - 1 reports

Japan - trying to rewrite history?

On June 3, while visiting China, Japan's former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka acknowledged that in 1972, while in the process of normalizing of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, leaders from Japan and China had reached an agreement to postpone ... [Published China.org.cn - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Hiromu Nonaka, Japan, Senkaku Islands, China

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

LDP, New Komeito at odds over constitutional amendments ahead of poll

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner New Komeito are at odds over whether to revise the country's pacifist Constitution while New Komeito shares some policy agenda with the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: New Komeito (JP), Liberal Democratic Party (JP), Democratic Party of Japan (JP)

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Shinzo Abe

Cabinet support rate off to 68% amid bourse fall

Print: Jun 04, 2013Last Modfied: Jun 04, 2013Support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet dropped to 68 percent in the latest poll from 70.9 percent last month, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.It is the first time since January that the Cabinet approval ... [Published Japan Times - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Shinzo Abe, Bourse, Japan, New Komeito (JP), Japan Restoration Party

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Gov't set to allow online sale of 99% of non-prescription drugs in Japan

The government on June 2 made final adjustments to lift a ban on the online sale of most non-prescription drugs in Japan -- a move that would allow over 99 percent of over-the-counter medicines to be sold over the Internet.Currently online sales of type ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Japan, nonprescription, Liberal Democratic Party (JP), Tomomi Inada

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 2 reports

Hashimoto prevails over condemnation motions

OSAKA – Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader Toru Hashimoto prevailed over his foes in the municipal assembly Thursday night when two condemnation motions against his remarks justifying Japan’s wartime “comfort women” ... [Published Japan Times - May 30 2013]

Entities: Tōru Hashimoto, Osaka, Condemnation, Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Japan must show path to fiscal reform: coalition partner

A recent rise in Japan's long-term interest rates to around 1 percent is within a tolerable range, but it is necessary to avoid a marked further rise in bond yields, the secretary-general of Japan's junior ruling coalition party said on Wednesday.Yoshihisa ... [Published Reuters - May 29 2013]

Entities: Yoshihisa Inoue, Coalition, Japan, Shinzo Abe

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Recovering lost pension records faces difficult road

Print: May 29, 2013Last Modfied: May 29, 2013The government is stepping up efforts to rectify the sloppy handling of pension records, aiming to make progress by the end of the current fiscal year.In the roughly six years that have passed since the loss ... [Published Japan Times - May 28 2013]

Entities: Shinzo Abe, Japan, New Komeito (JP)

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

Japan Upper House Diet election to be on July 21, 2013

Put this in your diary. The Japan Times reporting that: The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and junior partner in coalition, New Komeito, will not keep the Diet open beyond June 26 This paves the way for$ July 21 upper house ? ... [Published Great China Brokerage Ltd - May 27 2013]

Entities: Diet, Japan, Elections, New Komeito (JP), Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Will Shinzo Abe Succeed with Constitutional Changes to Militarize Japan and Further Destroy the Yen?

As noted previously Shinzo Abe Seeks Constitutional Changes for a More Militaristic, Authoritarian Japanese Society . Today's question is: Will Abe Succeed?The answer boils down to election math. Japan News shows 63 and 100 are crucial figures in ... [Published Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - May 14 2013]

Entities: House of Councillors, Shinzo Abe, New Komeito (JP), SitkaPacific Capital Management, Japan

First reported Dec 25 2012 - Updated Dec 26 2012 - 2 reports

UPDATE 2-Japan’s incoming PM keeps up pressure on BOJ to attack deflation

Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:53am EST * Abe calls on BOJ to set 2 pct inflation target * Adds will leave policy means to BOJ once he’s PM * Abe unveils party executive line-up, readies cabinet By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Stanley White TOKYO, Dec ... [Published AdBanks.net - Dec 25 2012]

Entities: Shinzo Abe, Bank of Japan, Deflation, Inflation, Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

Quotes

...Article 59 stipulates that a bill passed by the lower house but rejected by the upper house "becomes law when passed a second time the House of Representatives by a majority of two-thirds or more of the members present." At present, the ruling parties--the LDP and its junior coalition partner New Komeito--control two-thirds of the lower house...

INSIGHTS into the WORLD / Explore realistic ways to revise Constitution [Published The Japan News - Jun 17 2013]

...Minister Takakazu Kuriyama, who participated in the talks as director of the ministry's Treaties Division, has testified that he understands that "top officials of the two countries had reached a tacit agreement" to shelve the issue. In recent months, China has frequently sent a signal to Japan that it is willing to settle the issue by shelving it

Editorial: Japan, China should pursue best way to settle Senkaku Islands dispute [Published MAINICHI Daily News - Jun 12 2013]

...On April 23 2013, he argued in a Diet debate that: "The definition of what constitutes "aggression" has yet to be established in academia or in the international community."

Japan - trying to rewrite history? [Published China.org.cn - Jun 09 2013]

Long-term interest rates of "1 percent or so are not such a problem, but in terms of economic management, we should avoid having that trend intensify."

Japan must show path to fiscal reform: coalition partner [Published Reuters - May 29 2013]

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Will Shinzo Abe Succeed with Constitutional Cha... [Published Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - May 14 2013] As noted previously Shinzo Abe Seeks Constitutional Changes for a More Militaristic, Authoritarian Japanese Society . Today's question is: Will Abe Succeed?The answer boils down to election math. Japan News shows 63 and 100 are crucial figures in ...
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