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The Foreign Ministry has decided to admit the existence of a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows stopovers of U.S. military vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear weapons, ministry sources said Saturday.

The ruling and opposition blocs were at odds last week over a government-sponsored bill to provide financial support for small and midsize companies--a situation that could be attributed to the Democratic Party of Japan's lack of a consistent policy for Diet management.

The ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party of Japan used its overwhelming Lower House majority Thursday to ram through a bill urging financial institutions to ease repayment terms for struggling customers.

The U.S.-Japanese alliance, the 'cornerstone of peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region' since 1950, is undergoing some major transformations.

The new Japanese government has improved the way it communicates with the public and is starting to stand up to the once all-powerful bureaucracy, according to the man who once served as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's media chief and who gave advice to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan on strategy before the general election.

After the mayor filed a defamation lawsuit seeking 5 million rubles from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, a countersuit for 10 times that amount was filed on Zhirinovsky's behalf.

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United States President Barack Obama will show whether his new Democratic administration has a cohesive and principled strategy to accommodate the new changes in the Asia - Pacific region when he makes his first official trip to Asia this week.

HIROSHIMA Hidehiko Yuzaki, a 44-year-old former trade ministry bureaucrat, won the gubernatorial election in Hiroshima Prefecture Sunday, replacing outgoing Gov.

Every other year the Central Social Insurance Medical Council determines how much health insurance societies must pay to medical institutions for medical treatments.

My advice to the new government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is to not flinch from the challenge of developing a new economic model that enables people to live a high-quality life even if the economy doesn't grow at all.

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama faced a new scandal Monday when it was revealed he failed to declare income from stock sales, giving the opposition ammunition heading into a three-day Lower House Budget Committee session.

The Democratic Party of Japan likely will submit to the current Diet session a bill designed to aid all hepatitis patients, sources said Monday.

Liberal Democratic Party leader Eedomir Jovanoviae said that routine violence and crimes in the city cannot be tolerated any longer.

A parliamentary body yesterday asked the government to cancel the machine-readable passport project and introduce electronic passports to save public money.

The Liberal Democratic Party, as the new embodiment of the opposition camp, wasted no time Wednesday in lashing out against the Democratic Party of Japan administration, grilling the Cabinet for lacking a long-term vision on national strategies and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's political funds scandal.

Prime Minister-designate Lucian Croitoru announced on Friday that he has sent his cabinet nominations and governing programme to parliament.

TOKYO: Japana s Democratic Party won two by-elections for parliamenta s upper house Sunday, media projections showed, a nod of voter approval in the first national polls since the party took power last month.

ABOARD THE JS KURAMA: Japan's navy held its triennial fleet review on Sunday, its first major demonstration of power under the country's new government, which has vowed to cut back on some of its already limited activities overseas.

FOLLOWING the proceedings of the Umno general assembly last week, one felt astonishment at the remarkable ability of the country's premier political party to renew, reform and reinvent itself after the severe setback it suffered in the 12th general election.