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	Japan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Japan proper has four main islands, which are (from north to south) Hokkaido, Honshu (the largest island, where the capital and most major cities are located), Shikoku, and Kyushu.
		The general conservative trend in politics was tempered by the elections of 1947, which made the Social Democratic party headed by Tetsu Katayama the dominant force in a two-party coalition government.
		In the general election of 1989, the LDP lost in the upper house of the parliament for the first time in 35 years; nonetheless, LDP president Toshiki Kaifu became prime minister later that year.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/Japan.html (5901 words)

	JAPAN ECHO - MUCH ADO OVER ZERO INTEREST Vol. 27, No. 5 - GENERAL ELECTION 2000
		In general, a support rate of under 30% is considered a yellow light for a Japanese prime minister, and a rate of under 20% is considered a red light.
		Though the election results failed to deliver a clear mandate, one thing they did reveal was a split between the big cities and the less urbanized regions.
		The basically backward-looking June election also revealed that, as in the case of the economy, Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s is casting a deep shadow on the political scene.
	www.japanecho.co.jp /sum/2000/270507.html (1523 words)

	Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
		Japan attaches great importance to the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging and supports the idea presented in the report of the Secretary-General that the mainstreaming of aging in national plans and international strategies is essential to that end.
		Japan has made considerable progress in promoting accessibility in the physical environment, including access to transport services and buildings, and we are making efforts to accelerate the process of realizing a barrier-free society.
		Japan has been enhancing international cooperation in this field from the perspective of human security, for example, through grant aid for the construction of facilities that are friendly to persons with disabilities and through provision of technical assistance, including vocational training for persons with disabilities.
	www.un.int /japan/statements/okagaki051004.htm (867 words)

	Japan Omnibus - Politics - Government
		Officially, Japan is a constitutional monarchy with the emperor as the head of state.
		The increased material wealth enjoyed by the nation, an election system heavily biased towards rural areas (where the party remains strong), close ties with wealthy business supporters, policy moderation, and a party system that always seems to be more orgainized than the opposition all led to a government that was full of corruption and arrogance.
		Japan is divided into 47 prefectures, and local administration is conducted at the levels of prefectural, city, town, and village governments, each with their respective assemblies.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/government.shtml (1285 words)

	Japan Battles for Big Power Status at UN - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		Japan, the second largest contributor to the UN budget, is bitterly disappointed that its most ambitious goal at the United Nations - a permanent seat in the 15-member Security Council - still remains beyond its reach.
		"Japan is unquestionably one of the world's leading economic powers, and its performance remains crucial to the recovery of all the East Asian economies," he points out.
		Japan was accused of pressuring aid-recipients, mostly poorer developing nations in Africa, to cast their votes in favour of Japan.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/reform/japan.htm (937 words)

	Japan Rethinks Strategy for Gaining Permanent UN Security Council Seat - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Japan, the world's second largest contributor to the U.N. budget after the U.S., has murmured "no taxation without representation" and has campaigned long and hard for a permanent seat on the council.
		Japan and many other U.N. member countries insist that the number of both permanent and nonpermanent members should be increased to a total of 24.
		Japan's loss to the U.S. of its status as the world's largest single aid donor, in 2001, also dealt a significant setback to its international diplomatic clout.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/reform/cluster1/2002/0520japan.htm (1324 words)

	JAPAN ECHO - MUCH ADO OVER ZERO INTEREST Vol. 27, No. 5 - GENERAL ELECTION 2000
		Under-20 murders during the first half of 2000 may be double the figure for January-June 1999, but we must allow for the fact that the 1999 figure happened to be unusually low.
		In 1960 Asanuma Inejirô, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, was stabbed to death, and the following year an attack on the home of Chûô Kôron Sha President Shimanaka Hôji resulted in the death of his maid and serious injury to his wife.
		This was a time when Japan as a whole was leaning leftward, and the appearance of these rightist youths was a startling one.
	www.japanecho.co.jp /sum/2000/270510.html (957 words)

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		Japan is ranked 5th out of 30 countries in the Asiaâ“Pacific region, and its overall score is much higher than the regional average.
		Japan is weaker in freedom from government and financial freedom.
		Japan's insurance industry is the world's second largest, and 26 foreign firms account for 25 percent of the insurance market.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Japan (970 words)

	The 2000 General Elections
		Japan will have to wait for the next general elections, which could take place as late as 2004, to see if the electorate is ready to vote in a new government.
		One of the major disappointments of the June 25 election was the fate of the Japanese Communist Party.
		In many places throughout Japan (perhaps nowhere more than in Komae, where an incumbent JCP mayor was facing reelection), mysterious pamphlets were distributed to people's homes, warning about the dangers of the communists coming to power.
	www.zmag.org /Japanwatch/0008-election.html (1415 words)

	www.debito.org Thoughts about Japan's General Election of Nov 9, 2003
		Japan had its general elections for the Lower House (the more powerful of the two legislative bodies) on November 9, 2003.
		But when you take into account the fact that in Hokkaido, now Japan's poorest prefecture, is on average the rurality suffering the most economic duress in Japan, the opposition wound up gaining not only two LDP seats, but also three PR seats--from 8 to 11.
		Leaving aside the falsehood that there are more illegal foreigners in Japan than ever before (when in fact the number of illegals has gone down EVERY year since 1993: http://www.debito.org/crimestats.html#visa), it mentions nowhere (not even in the eye-glazers) how the LDP will impliment this policy while avoiding racial profiling and harassing people in my position.
	www.debito.org /2003electionthoughts.html (1971 words)

	Japanese Media Forced to Decipher Political Jargon
		For much of Japan?s postwar history, lawmakers have done their politicking behind closed doors and have rarely had to emerge from their smoke-filled rooms to speak to the media.
		Japan?s charismatic current Prime Minster, Junichiro Koizumi, is particularly known for his media savvy.
		In June 2000, Prime Minister Mori put his foot in his mouth by saying he hoped that voters who were still undecided would not participate in the upcoming general election: ?It would be okay if they remain uninterested in the election and stay asleep.
	www.japanmediareview.com /japan/stories/050309mcnicol (2218 words)

	Modern Japan - Famous Japanese - Ishihara Shintaro
		After his election, Ishihara continued to fan the flames of controversy, for example by including in an address to the security forces that they should be ready to defend the country against rioting foreigners in case of a major natural disaster.
		Moreover, the author explains why Japan must use their technological lead to achieve a new consciousness if they are truly to become a mature society.
		But there is a danger in that the generally politically uninformed Japanese populace tend to be swayed by the charisma of these figures and put the more questionable statements and decisions down to some kind of charming eccentricity.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/ishihara_shintaro.shtml (882 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		Koizumi's successful election strategy tapped into public concern that fat government bureaucracies were sapping the country's economic growth as an aging population worried about how citizens would be taken care of when they retire.
		Japan has demanded an immediate halt to the project, claiming that natural gas reserves on the Japanese side of the median line could be sucked in by the Chinese project.
		Japan and the US are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the year on the realignment of American military bases in Japan.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GI13Dh06.html (3596 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - Japan's Mori has busy first day on diplomatic front - April 6, 2000
		Opposition leaders and major newspapers demanded Thursday that Mori call snap elections to prove his mandate, voters seemed to see him as a stand-in, and rumors were rife that his fellow Liberal Democrats were jockeying to replace him.
		Opposition party leaders also criticized the way Mori was chosen, pointing out that it was the convenience of the ruling party and not his accomplishments as a statesman that won him the nomination.
		Japan's Emperor Akihito to swear in new prime minister, Cabinet
	edition.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/04/06/japan.politics (762 words)

	Internet Society (ISOC) 2000 BOT Election - Candidates
		He organized Japan Executive Committee of INET2000 and became Co-Chair of INET2000 Conference, Takahashi is now working very hard on INET2000, which is scheduled to be held for the first time in Yokohama.
		I was one of your representatives on the Board of Trustees during 1996-1999, and I hope that I've met your expectations.
		Although I'm a U.S. citizen and have diverse networking interests, I consider the most important to be assisting the developing world to become connected and, in doing so, improve all aspects of their civil society.
	www.isoc.org /members/vote/2000election/candinfo.shtml (5190 words)

	Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet
		During the election campaign, the Minshuto party leaders Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan criticized Koizumi's economic reform plan as being on the detriment of social welfare.
		The perverse thing about the election is that Koizumi helped a lot of conservative LDP members who oppose his reform plans to regain their seats.
		The LDP General Council Chairman Mitsuo Horiuchi, 71, is an outspoken advocate of financial reform of public corporations.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo18/koizumi_japan.htm (2416 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		When the votes were all counted, the party that has ruled Japan for the majority of the time since 1955, failed to gain a majority in the Lower House of the Diet (parliament).
		This is the same party that currently has girded itself, under its determined leader Naoto Kan, to challenge the LDP head on, seat-by-seat, in the upcoming general election, which takes place on Sunday, November 9.
		In preparing for the election, Koizumi set a strict age rule that banned candidates more than 73 years old from the party's slate of what are called "proportional representation" seats, instead of single-constituency seats.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/EJ30Dh01.html (1550 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - Early turnout appears low in Japanese general election - June 25, 2000
		TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan voted on Sunday in an election expected to return a three-way ruling bloc to power despite widespread dissatisfaction with politics in the world's second largest economy struggling to emerge from recession.
		Election officials are predicting turnout of at least 60 percent this time.
		Mori's popularity has been battered by a string of comments suggesting nostalgia for Japan's wartime militarism as well as raising doubts over whether he is intellectually up to leading the world's second-largest economy.
	www.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/06/25/japan.elections/index.html (875 words)

	Tayori Newsletter, July, 1999 edition
		Consul General of Japan in San Diego, Dr. Michel Inoue, Chairman of the Education Committee of the JSSDT (EduCom), Ms.
		The orphanage also shares their gardens and art program with the community of the San Diego-Tijuana where groups of children and the community members learn about artistic and practical ways to be more self-sufficient and sustainable.
		The Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana co-sponsors the concerts with several other organizations such as Japan Maquiladora Association, San Diego-Tijuana Sister Cities, Mexican Cultural Institute of San Diego, and Kyocera.
	www.japan-society.org /news_apr00.html (571 words)

	PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT
		Briefing correspondents on the Security Council’s programme of work for October, Kenzo Oshima, Japan’s Ambassador to the United Nations and the Council’s President for the month, said the selection of the United Nations next Secretary-General would be one of the most important tasks awaiting Council action.
		Asked whether Japan had this morning circulated a draft presidential statement, he said Japan had not yet circulated any document to the Council.
		On the issue of Uganda and the peace negotiations between the Lords Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government, he said the negotiations were ongoing and the idea of appointing a special representative was also being considered. The Council would pay close attention to developments and would, if necessary, consider the matter.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2006/061003_Japan.doc.htm (671 words)

	Debian Project Leader Elections 2005
		General Resolution: Editorial amendments to the social contract
		I would like to thank all the candidates for their service to the project, for standing for the post of project leader, and for offering the developers a strong and viable group of candidates.
		The problem is that in complex elections, there may well be a circular relations ship in which A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A. Most of the variations on Condorcet use various means of resolving the tie.
	www.debian.org /vote/2005/vote_001 (765 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: The Wasted Asset
		As Japan prepares for an election widely thought likely to define its future, it might contemplate why half of its population is still preserved in the amber of a tradition-bound past.
		As a consequence, Japan's fertility rate fell to a record low of 1.29 in 2004 compared to 2.13 in the U.S., giving it one of the lowest birth rates in the world.
		In the run-up to next month's lower house elections, Japan's tabloids have sensationalized the fact that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has approached several prominent women to stand for office against the 37 LDP party members who voted against his postal reform bill.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501050829/story.html (1620 words)

	Amazon.com: Unprecedented - The 2000 Presidential Election - 2004 Campaign Edition: DVD: Peter Coyote,Clarence Thomas ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America.
		What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate’s brother.
		This brief documentary does a really good job at covering how the 2000 election was stolen and how thousands of eligible voters in good standing were turned away from the polls or had their names stricken from the voting rolls entirely.
	www.amazon.com /Unprecedented-2000-Presidential-Election-Campaign/dp/B0001Y4LZA (2710 words)

	Online NewsHour: View From Abroad -- November 15, 2000
		Four journalists from around the world, who are covering the American election story, discuss their nations' reactions to the election deadlock.
		Especially for Students: Explanations on the ongoing legal battles of election 2000.
		I think most honest observers of the market today would say that if there are changes in the market, they are a result of some of the earning statements that have been put out by the companies having nothing to do with what's gone on in the last week in the political world.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/foreign_views_11-15.html (1857 words)

	Transcript of the Japan Considered Podcast for October 27, 2006
		As with most by-elections, voter turnout was relatively low, well under 50%, which was described as contributing to the LDP victory.
		In fact, their candidate in Sunday’s by-election held the seat until the LDP blowout in the September 11th, 2005 General Election.
		As important, everyone in Japan’s government and even the media will recognize that Sekou has such access, giving him far more clout than he would have were he just an outsider professional PR gunslinger brought in to do the job.
	www.japan.poli.sc.edu /Podcasts/Scripts/061027Transcript.html (3600 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Election Profile for Yemen
		If no candidate obtains and absolute majority of votes cast, a run-off election is held between the two highest-polling candidates.
		In the House of Representatives, 301 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 6-year terms.
		The last presidential election was held on September 23, 1999.
	www.electionguide.org /election.php?ID=1039 (151 words)

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