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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...

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Twenty-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...

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Japan 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...

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Hiroshima 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...

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Almost 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...

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PM 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...

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No 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...

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Tokyo 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...

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Nagoya, 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...

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PM 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...

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Japan’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...

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Osaka 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...

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Opposition 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...

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Upper 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....

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Japanese 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...

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Surveys 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...

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Japanese 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...

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LDP 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...

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Anime 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...

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3-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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