Akikazu Hashimoto, a senior research associate at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, spoke with Washington Times reporter Takehiko Kambayashi about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet and upcoming July elections to the house of Councilors, Japan's upper house. Question: What do you make of the results of two upper house by- elections Sunday? [In the rural prefecture of Fukushima, a Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) candidate won a landslide victory, while in Okinawa, a subtropical island of Japan where U.S. military bases are concentrated, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate defeated her DPJ rival.]
Akikazu Hashimoto, a professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, spoke with Washington Times reporter Takehiko Kambayashi about the U.S. military presence on Okinawa. Mr. Hashimoto is the chairman of the Japanese side of the Okinawa Question, a group of specialists from the United States and Japan who have discussed the bilateral alliance and security issues from the standpoint of Okinawa. Question: The relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma currently is going nowhere. Are the U.S. and Japan going to hammer out an alternate plan?
Akikazu Hashimoto, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, has extensively researched Japan's unaffiliated voters. He spoke with Washington Times reporter Takehiko Kambayashi about the House of Councilors elections this July. Question: Public surveys seem to show the recent pension scandal, in which it became known that more than 100 lawmakers in the Japanese Diet had not been paying compulsory national pension premiums, discourage many voters in the upcoming elections.
BEIJING - It was the scenario strategists from Beijing to Washington worried about: Kim Jong Il of North Korea dies suddenly, before the isolated regime can complete a transfer of power to his young son and rejoin disarmament talks with the U.S. With news Monday of Kim's death, the impoverished country known to be pursuing nuclear weapons plunged further into uncertainty, raising risks for the region.
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TURKISH ANGER AT OBAMA The Turkish ambassador accused President Obama of pandering to the American-Armenian lobby in weekend remarks, while Armenians denounced him for failing to use the word "genocide" to describe a widely disputed World War I massacre.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones (NAFTZ) today announced that Daniel Griswold, a nationally recognized advocate for open trade and economic expansion, has been appointed NAFTZ President, effective January 9. A graduate of the London School of Economics and author of the popular 2009 book Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization, Griswold has for many years been a prolific and enthusiastic free-trade advocate and author from his position as Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington.
Yasukuni Shrine in the heart of the Japanese capital has been likened by some historians to the unthinkable: a shrine to Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler in the heart of modern-day Berlin. But to millions of Japanese who visit the leafy compound where white-robed Shinto priests perform rituals to care for the spirits of deceased soldiers who gave their lives for their nation, the site is as sacred as Arlington National Cemetery has been for generations of Americans.
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