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...The country’s former defence minister Tomomi Inada told reporters that a woman would only reach the top of the ruling Liberal Democratic party if some crisis had left it with no other choice....
...“It means a lot to have a woman showing she wants the leadership,” Ms Inada said....
...Mr Inada says its selling price for a lettuce has come down from ¥258 ($2.34) in 2008 to ¥198 in 2013 and a target price of ¥158 today....
...“I think we also won understanding of the need to raise consumption tax to ensure the sustainability of social security and our strategy to ease the impact of the consumption tax increase,” Ms Inada added...
...Mr Abe had been expected to replace Ms Inada, a protégé of the prime minister who made repeated gaffes in the sensitive defence post, as part of a cabinet reshuffle next week....
...“I’d like Ms Inada to fulfil her responsibility to explain and continue to discharge her duties,” said Mr Abe....
...But even if the reshuffle solidifies Mr Abe’s agenda and restores some order after a series of allegations of cronyism and last week’s resignation of Tomomi Inada as defence minister, analysts doubt the...
...international law and the observation of training exercises, we’re working towards a shared understanding in order to realise the rule of law and support the architecture for maritime security,” said Tomomi Inada...
...Tomomi Inada, the defence minister whose gaffes have cost the government dearly, also resigned on Thursday....
...Even Inada’s closest supporters are uneasy about the speed of her promotion. Perhaps Inada herself is the most surprised by her advancement....
...Speaking last Friday, Tomomi Inada, the defence minister, said the law allowing use of force by Japanese vessels to protect their US allies had taken effect but she declined to comment on specific missions...
...“We have to make sure that this kind of a situation will not happen,” said Ms Inada. “The US has a strike capability and this is a deterrence.”...
...The scandal has grown steadily since it was first exposed in February with Tomomi Inada, Japan’s defence minister, forced to correct herself in parliament this week after documents emerged showing she had...
...“The countries that fought each other most fiercely, Japan and the US, are now the strongest of allies,” Ms Inada told reporters....
...Answering questions in parliament, Tomomi Inada, defence minister, refused to rule out acquiring the capacity for a pre-emptive strike....
...“Until then, I had never considered becoming a politician,” Ms Inada recalled in a book....
...Meanwhile, Japan’s defence minister Tomomi Inada criticised Beijing for violating Japanese sovereignty with a drone flight from a Chinese ship inside Japan’s territorial waters....
...It turned out that defence minister Tomomi Inada had once acted as a lawyer for the school....
...In Japan, Mr Mattis is expected to call on Tomomi Inada, Japan’s defence minister, with the two likely to reaffirm the longstanding alliance between their countries....
...Last year Ms Inada questioned the Tokyo tribunal that convicted Japanese leaders of war crimes after the second world war....
...If Renho becomes Democratic party leader her victory would follow Yuriko Koike’s election as governor of Tokyo and Tomomi Inada’s appointment as defence minister....
...Renho’s victory follows Yuriko Koike’s election as governor of Tokyo and Tomomi Inada’s appointment as defence minister....
...Toshiro Inada, now in his nineties, was a fighter pilot and flight instructor during the war....
...Renho’s rise, along with the appointment of Tomomi Inada as defence minister and Yuriko Koike’s election as governor of Tokyo, suggests Japan’s notoriously conservative political culture is starting to open...
...Nobuko Inada, a tombstone wholesaler, bemoaned the fact that where once the Japanese spent between ¥3m ($30,000) and ¥5m on a tombstone, the average was now between ¥1m and ¥3m....
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