Tag: politics

The election in the U.S. is finally over, and I'm sure everyone is happy to have it behind them. Unfortunately ...

The U.S. is in "election mode" right now, so I thought I'd compare politics between America and Japan a bit. ...

One theme I cover a lot is that capitalism in Japan doesn't work the way it does in other countries. ...

J-List has a popular Facebook page as well as a Twitter feed, and I sometimes like to throw out questions ...

One of the interesting aspects of Japan is that it's one of the most pro-American countries on the planet, with ...

Running an international anime company for the past 16 years has been interesting, and I've learned a lot about both ...

The other night I found myself randomly surfing Japanese late-night TV to see what was on. First was a TV ...

The U.S. presidential election is going strong, with candidates trading barbs in the news media about their various policies. Elections ...

Japan faces many challenges as the 21st century progresses, including the ongoing aging of its society, which will see 25% ...

One of the benefits of living outside the United States is not having to endure the endless bombardment of political ...

As I often write here, each nation has a unique "national character" which the Japanese call kokumin-sei. Part of Japan's ...

All eyes are watching the upcoming election for president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which will determine the ...

The end is near for Naoto Kan, 94th Prime Minister of Japan. I've been a fan of Mr. Kan's for ...

If there's a Golden Rule in Japan, it's that you should never cause meiwaku, translatable as inconvenience or trouble, to ...

I happened to catch an article about some corruption scandals cropping up in India recently, which are causing some big ...

There's trouble brewing in China again as demonstrators in several cities protested against Japanese businesses, smashing the windshields of Japanese ...

I noticed that Japan had been officially ranked 97th in gender equality by the World Economic Forum, comparing to the ...

China and Japan are in the middle of a diplomatic spat after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Japan ...

Japan's political world got a little more interesting than usual this week as Democratic Party of Japan kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa ...

The Japanese election was last Sunday, and as expected, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan lost ground, giving up a ...

Besides making the freeways here actually "free" -- a policy that's received surprisingly little support once people realized the horrific ...

The Japanese election is over, and as expected, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a significant victory over the ...

Japan currently stands at the brink, staring down at an abyss so hellish I can scarcely contemplate it. I'm talking, ...

For whatever reason, one of the themes of Japanese society is that its citizens don't show much in the way ...