Diet of Japan

...results rather than any positive action on the DPJ's part. A good example of the LDP's "unworthiness to govern" was in the Sept. 16 Diet vote to elect a new prime minister. Although each legislator voted for the head of his or her...

In this article: Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Japan, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Zenko Suzuki, Conservatism, Kakuei Tanaka, Katsuya Okada, and Diet

...opposition camp. In the morning, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama criticized the opposition parties for refusing to participate in Diet deliberations. "Neither of us (the ruling or opposition camps) should do something like boycotting Diet...

In this article: Diet, New Komeito, House of Representatives, Yukio Hatoyama, and Japan

...of the committee, said if the committee had not passed the bill Thursday, it would not have been enacted by the last day of the current Diet session (Nov. 30). The DPJ is determined to avoid having to extend the Diet session so that...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, Diet, Liberal Democratic Party, Yukio Hatoyama, Komeito, Cash flow, and Koichiro Genba

...for small and midsize companies was set to clear the Lower House late Thursday night after the ruling bloc rammed it through a Diet committee in the first such power play since the Hatoyama administration assumed office two months...

In this article: DPJ, Diet, Liberal Democratic Party, Koichiro Genba, Recession, New Komeito, and Takeaki Matsumoto

...Cabinet Secretary Masajuro Shiokawa acknowledged on a TV program in 2001 that the fund was used to "deal with opposition parties at the Diet." Before taking the reins of government in August, the Democratic Party of Japan was pushing for...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Diet, and Masajuro Shiokawa

...issuance next year that might send yields higher and derail the nascent economic recovery. Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii told the Diet on Tuesday that the government, determined to hold debt sales for the next financial year at YEN44...

In this article: Hirohisa Fujii, Democratic Party of Japan, Diet, Yoshihiko Noda, Seiji Maehara, Fiscal year, Revenue, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Sumio Mabuchi, and Yukio Hatoyama

...formerly oversaw. The government has been in a rush to finalize the appointment of the president because he will have to attend Diet deliberations on a government-proposed bill designed to cut bureaucrats' pay before Dec. 1, when their...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan and Diet

...YEARS AGO Scores of policemen and demonstrators were injured late yesterday afternoon at a labor-sponsored rally held in front of the Diet building in opposition to the proposed revision of the Japan-U.S. Treaty. Among the injured were 241...

In this article: Babe Ruth, Diet, Japan, Connie Mack, Tokyo, Nagoya, and General Council

In 1968, the Republic of Maldives was declared. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature. In 1984, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. - father of slain civil...

In this article: Rock, Yasser Arafat, George W. Bush, U.S., Diet, World War I, Car bomb, Jacobo Timerman, and Tim Lincecum

...the consent of the majority of the voters of that district and the Okinawan wishes were clearly ignored in the Guam Treaty. The Diet simply rode roughshod over Okinawa. Since the treaty took precedence over domestic law, it also had...

In this article: Okinawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, United States, U.S. Marines, The Diet, Canberra, and Washington