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Just deserts1 comment

ampontan wrote 1 week ago: Upon a pillory – that al the world may see / A just desert for such impiety. - Warning Faire W … more →

Tags: Government, History, International Relations, Military Affairs, Politics, Japan, Kan N., Maehara S., Okinawa

More on Hatoyama the hapless, part three1 comment

ampontan wrote 1 month ago: This magazine has for some time pointed out that the policy reviews were nothing more than a perform … more →

Tags: Government, Japan, Kasumigaseki

More on Hatoyama the hapless, part two1 comment

ampontan wrote 1 month ago: BEFORE we return to our regularly scheduled programming, let’s have two quick posts to provide more … more →

Tags: Politics, Government, Japan, Hashimoto T., Japanese Political Realignment, Koshi'ishi A.

Bad penny1 comment

ampontan wrote 1 month ago: HAVING the proverbial bad penny turn up is already inauspicious, but when the bad penny in circulati … more →

Tags: International Relations, I couldn't make this up if I tried, Japan

The end of the LDP

ampontan wrote 1 month ago: When your ideology has become rigid, you have checked your brains at the door. If you want proof of … more →

Tags: China, Politics, Government, Japan, Nakagawa H., Ozawa I., Ishihara N., Eda K., Okada K.

Hashimoto Toru (3): Other policies, other views

ampontan wrote 2 months ago: **This is the third of a multi-part series on Osaka Mayor Hashimoto Toru and the phenomenon he repre … more →

Tags: International Relations, Politics, Business, finance and the economy, North Korea, Government, Fukushima M., Hashimoto T., Ishihara N., Japan

21st century Class A war criminals5 comments

ampontan wrote 2 months ago: It’s been one year since the Tohoku earthquake. What we need now is not words, but actions. Not repe … more →

Tags: International Relations, Politics, Social Trends, Government, Taiwan, Azumi J., Edano Y., Japan, Kan N.

Ichien koji (92)

ampontan wrote 3 months ago: 一言居士 - A person who has something to say about everything Life is (a process of) rehabilitation. I … more →

Tags: Politics, Quotes, Japan

Termites1 comment

ampontan wrote 3 months ago: RECENT opinion polls show that support for Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko’s Cabinet is now below 30%, … more →

Tags: Politics, Government, Japan, Kan N., Noda Y.

Rankings first to worst2 comments

ampontan wrote 4 months ago: THE results of two recent public opinion polls tell us more about the Japanese perceptions of their … more →

Tags: Politics, Japan, Koizumi J., ABE Shinzo, Aso T., Kan N., Ozawa I., Fukuda Y., Noda Y.

What goes around

ampontan wrote 4 months ago: Bullets are flying from all directions. Recently they’ve been coming from behind, from my allies. - … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, finance and the economy, Government, Japan, Japanese Political Realignment, Kan N., Sengoku Y., Noda Y.

Kan Naoto's northern exposure4 comments

ampontan wrote 5 months ago: The DPJ has an inseparable relationship with the extreme left. - Isozaki Yosuke, LDP member of the u … more →

Tags: Politics, North Korea, Government, Japan, Kan N., Noda Y., Eda S.

Funny money2 comments

ampontan wrote 5 months ago: HERE’s an anecdote about Hatoyama Yukio that I ran across yesterday. It typifies the pettiness … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, finance and the economy, Government, Japan, Okinawa

Central bonkers3 comments

ampontan wrote 6 months ago: A half-century experiment in draping steam­ship anchors around the necks of the productive class and … more →

Tags: Business, finance and the economy, Government, Japan, Watanabe Y., ABE Shinzo

Four wasted years2 comments

ampontan wrote 6 months ago: JIJI is reporting that Health, Labor, and Welfare Minister Komiyama Yoko said after a Cabinet meetin … more →

Tags: Government, Politics, ABE Shinzo, Fukuda Y., Japan, Noda Y.

Ichigen koji (65)

ampontan wrote 7 months ago: 一言居士 - A person who has something to say about everything Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio was the firs … more →

Tags: International Relations, Quotes, Japan, Kamei S.

Still spaced2 comments

ampontan wrote 7 months ago: THERE are two possibilities: One is that former Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio, nicknamed the Man fro … more →

Tags: International Relations, Japan

Japan's political kaleidoscope (8): The new, the old, and the Noda13 comments

ampontan wrote 8 months ago: PLENTY of people were saying plenty of interesting things last week with the start of the Noda Cabin … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, finance and the economy, Education, Government, Agriculture, Japan, Koizumi J., ABE Shinzo, Kan N.

Bottom feeders9 comments

ampontan wrote 9 months ago: The dojo, you know Doesn’t try to play goldfish - Dojo, a poem by Aida Mitsuo NODA Yoshihiko, the ne … more →

Tags: Politics, Japan, Ozawa I., Anti-Nipponism, Koshi'ishi A., Hirano H., Noda Y.


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