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LEADERSHIP SHIFT (2): Xi tried to rebuild China...
Xi Jinping, far left, stands with the family he stayed with during a visit to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985. (Provided by China News Service)
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on leadership change of the Chinese Communist Party.
LEADERSHIP SHIFT (2): Xi tried to rebuild China...
Xi Jinping, far left, stands with the family he stayed with during a visit to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985. (Provided by China News Service)
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on leadership change of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese villagers gather for symbolic poll in bid...
A candidate in the election of a new village committee delivers a speech on Feb. 29 in Wukan, Guangdong province, China. (The Asahi Shimbun)
WUKAN, China -- Residents of a southern Chinese fishing village gathered on March 3 to elect a new administrative authority that many hail as a model for greater grassroots...
China urges proactive, cautious residency permit...
Banners pitched across a street in Wukan village, Guangdong province, in December 2011 show messages of protest to the local government and call for help from the Communist Party's central leadership. (Nozomu Hayashi)
BEIJING -- China has told local governments to reform the controversial residency permit, or hukou, system proactively but cautiously as part of efforts to increase rural...
Writer Oe leads call to keep reactors shut down
Author Kenzaburo Oe, center, talks about his hopes of achieving a nuclear-free society at a meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 6. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Author Kenzaburo Oe called Feb. 8 on heads of local governments hosting nuclear power plants not to give the go-ahead for the restart of reactors currently shut down for...
Fukushima municipalities seek post-decommissioning...
FUKUSHIMA -- Eight municipalities near the Fukushima No. 1 and Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plants were to ask the government Oct. 21 to create a grant system that pays...
EDITORIAL: Local governments should lead...
It has been six months since the devastating earthquake. The affected areas are gradually starting to move toward recovery, and many citizens are doing their all for that...
Survey: 50 percent of coastal towns have no tsunami ...
Kindergarten children in Kushimoto take part in an evacuation drill July 5. The drills have been conducted every morning at all kindergartens in Kushimoto, which is the southernmost point on the main island of Honshu. (Takaaki Nishiyama)
Only about half of the municipalities along the vulnerable Pacific coast have tsunami evacuation plans.
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