Liberal Democratic Party News

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.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Duma party leaders on Saturday the October 11 parliamentary election results would not be changed, the Liberal Democratic Party leader told journalists on Saturday.

A bell will sound Monday to mark the opening of the extraordinary Diet session and the legislative debut of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's administration.

The government envisions submitting a bill to parliament to enable Japan to inspect ships suspected of carrying banned cargo to and from North Korea, most likely without the involvement of the Self-Defense Forces, government sources said Thursday.

Baby boomers have finally attained power through a historic change of government.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama prior to their meeting at the latter's official residence in Tokyo October 21, 2009.

China hoped Japan would properly handle issues relating to the Yasukuni shrine, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in Beijing Tuesday.

Dmitry Gusakov, a former Duma deputy with the Liberal Democratic Party, is also accused of filing false reports with law enforcement authorities that a political rival possessed the drugs.