Japan Restoration Party
June 18, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed signs of retreating from his aggressive strategy to revise Japan’s pacifist Constitution after the public showed little enthusiasm for the...
June 07, 2013
Things are so tough for Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto that just talking to a long-time potential ally brought about a sense of relief.
May 30, 2013
OSAKA--The Osaka city assembly on May 30 rejected a censure motion against Mayor Toru Hashimoto over his remarks on “comfort women” and U.S. forces in Okinawa Prefecture...
May 28, 2013
A complacent smile appeared on the face of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto when he stepped down from the podium after a lengthy news conference, perhaps feeling vindicated in front...
May 24, 2013
Lawmakers have formed a task force to prepare Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto for foreign journalists next week when he explains his “comfort women” remarks that sparked...
May 22, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara defended his fellow co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party on May 21, saying Toru Hashimoto’s proposal for U.S. troops to use legal sex-related services...
May 21, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s mouth was flapping again on May 20 in defense of his views on “comfort women,” saying even the South Korean military was guilty of using...
May 20, 2013
Public support for Toru Hashimoto’s Japan Restoration Party fell after he caused an uproar with his remarks on wartime frontline brothels and suggestion that U.S. servicemen...
May 20, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 19 defended his suggestion that U.S. troops in Okinawa patronize sex-related services, saying the controversy his remark caused already had a...
May 18, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara joined the chorus of criticism against fellow Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto but from a different angle: He said his political partner’s...
May 17, 2013
An emerging Japanese nationalist political party whose co-leader outraged many with remarks about Japan's wartime and modern sexual services became embroiled in more...
May 17, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 17 hit back at U.S. criticism of his remarks on "comfort women" by accusing the United States of using Japanese women to provide sex for...
May 16, 2013
A multipartisan group of female lawmakers demanded that Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto retract his remark about wartime “comfort women,” saying he has embarrassed Japan and...
May 14, 2013
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, stunned and flustered a U.S. military commander in Okinawa earlier this month with a suggestion that legalized...
May 13, 2013
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, said on May 13 that "comfort women" were necessary for Japanese soldiers during World War II, but then softened ...
April 11, 2013
On April 9, Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, spoke to lawmakers of his party about his personal views on the Constitution. I find them quite sensible.
April 05, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara, the co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai) and former Tokyo governor, has resumed his life as a politician after weeks of being out...
April 02, 2013
Differences in revising the nation's pacifist Constitution, particularly its war-renouncing Article 9, mean the Democratic Party of Japan will not seek to align itself with the ...
January 28, 2013
When the ordinary Diet session starts on Jan. 28, debate between the ruling and opposition parties can finally resume after the Dec. 16 Lower House election that resulted in...
January 12, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set in motion his strategy to gain control of the Upper House--and pave the way to achieve his longtime goal of revising Japan’s pacifist...