Proposed bill considers ‘Lack of consideration for disabled’ as discrimination
The Cabinet Office has setup a taskforce which is working on a proposed bill to empower disabled citizens with better rights and consideration. The taskforce feels that it is the government’s...
View ArticleTwenty-nine Diet delegates give the Taiwan National Day celebrations a miss
Initial reports coming in say that a team of twenty-nine Diet delegates failed to attend the Taiwan National Day Celebrations. Earlier, the team had met with President Ma Ying-jeou, but apparently the...
View ArticleJapan tops list of countries with highest healthy life expectancy
The Global Burden of Disease Study of 2010 has just released its list of the top 10 countries with the highest healthy life expectancy. Japan tops both the list for men and women in this decades-long...
View ArticleHiroshima lawyers file lawsuit over voter disparity
A group of lawyers led by the Hiroshima Bar Association have filed a lawsuit against the Hiroshima Prefectural Election Administration Commission to nullify the December 16 results in the House of...
View ArticleAlmost 170 candidates expected to run in Japan’s Upper House election
In anticipation for the upcoming Upper House elections this summer, 169 lawmakers in Japan have stated they run in either constituencies or proportional representation blocks. There are 121 seats to be...
View ArticlePM Abe makes clear his intentions to change Japan’s constitution
On Thursday, speaking before upper house lawmakers, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he has every intention to change the constitution that imposed pacifism on Japan after the World War II–a move...
View ArticleNo surprise: TEPCO suspected of lying to government’s Fukushima investigation...
Accusations have been filed against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) stating that the utility intentionally blocked a parliamentary probe from investigating a site at the disaster-struck Fukushima...
View ArticleTokyo court rules Japan’s 2012 election ‘unconstitutional’
On Wednesday the Tokyo High Court rule that the December 2012 House of Representatives election was unconstitutional due to the voter disparity of 2.34 in Tokyo’s single-seat constituency. The...
View ArticleNagoya, Fukuoka courts agree December Lower House election was unconstitutional
Right after the lower house elections last December, two separate teams of lawyers filed 14 different lawsuits in eight high courts and six branches all over Japan. They prayed for the nullification of...
View ArticlePM Abe set to prioritize revision of Japan’s Article 96
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has mapped his priorities regarding revisions in the Constitution; first to tackle the amendment requirements of the Constitution currently set at two-thirds or more of...
View ArticleJapan’s parliament OKs internet election campaigning
Both houses of Japan’s Diet approved and enacted a bill on Friday that will allow electoral campaigning using websites, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking platforms – starting with this...
View ArticleOsaka Mayor Hashimoto visits Okinawa, voices support for Futenma transfer plan
Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), traveled to Okinawa Prefecture for a three-day visit starting on Tuesday. Hashimoto is looking to meet up with a...
View ArticleOpposition parties seek removal of LDP lawmaker after trip to China
Opposition parties are calling on Japan’s parliament to remove a senior Upper House lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) after her visit to China in April resulted in the...
View ArticleUpper House LDP chair dismissed after extended trip to China
Japan’s Upper House passed a resolution firing Yoriko Kawaguchi, a senior lawmaker of the ruling coalition Liberal Democratic Party, as head of the Environment Committee of the House of Councillors....
View ArticleJapanese lawmakers start debate on Article 96, revising Constitution
The ruling and opposition parties of Japan’s Diet on Thursday started the debate on the sought-after revision of Article 96, the part of the Constitution which defines the criteria for amending the...
View ArticleSurveys shows over half of Japanese opposed to Article 96 revision
A survey by a leading Japanese newspaper shows that 52% of the respondents are opposed to the proposed amendment to Article 96 of the Constitution that would make it easier to make revisions to the...
View ArticleJapanese Parliament finally ratifies Child Abduction Treaty
Japan’s upper and lower houses of parliament finally approved on Wednesday an international treaty on child abductions, as decades of pressure from the United States and the international community...
View ArticleLDP seeking to amend Japan’s child pornography laws
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party together with co-sponsors New Komeito Party and the Japan Restoration Party are seeking to amend Japan’s current child pornography laws. The bill proposes to make...
View ArticleAnime and manga associations protest proposed revision to child pornography bill
Several industry associations involved in anime and manga have expressed their opposition towards the proposed amendment to Japan’s current child pornography laws. The Liberal Democratic Party-led bill...
View Article3-year limit may prevent Fukushima evacuees from claiming compensation from...
More than 10,000 evacuees of the Fukushima power plant accident might lose their right to receive damage compensations from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). The company has only granted 165,824 forced...
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