The No. 18 district has long been a stronghold for former Prime Minister Naoto Kan of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. The LDP’s recruitment campaign was seen by some as ...

Nishimura has received support mainly from the group led by former Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Senior lawmakers hope that she can provide a fresh face for the party. Osaka and Ogawa belong to the ...

With the rising security challenges in the Western Pacific, then prime minister Naoto Kan ordered in 2010 an acceleration in ...

Garbage in Garbage out. How do we know? In the real world Antarctic sea ice is at record highs http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/extent/sea-ice/N/1 ...

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Since March 11th, the chief cabinet secretary Edano continued holding press conferences all day and all night without sleeping to explain the situation of the disaster and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Arpita Mathur is the Visiting Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Disclaimer: External experts are not affiliated with Gateway ...