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Japan to Build New Capital.

After the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in March of this year the Japanese government has begun to seriously consider plans to build a new, backup central government location to be used in times of national emergency or in case the city of Tokyo were to be destroyed by a natural disaster or […]

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Japan selects former finance minister as new Prime Minister.

Yoshihiko Noda will be the 6th Prime Minister of Japan elected in the past five years. He comes as Naoto Kan’s replacement, fulfilling Kan’s promise to step down as soon as the tsunami and its attendant crises had been sufficiently allayed. Like Kan, Yoshihiko Noda is from the Democratic Party of Japan, the first political […]

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