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Japan official calls for scrapping of troubled Monju reactor
Edit The Miami Herald 20 Sep 2016
Improving its safety would require billions of dollars. Toshimitsu Motegi, the Liberal Democratic Party's policy council chairman, said Tuesday the government should consider decommissioning the reactor ... ....
LDP policy chief calls for decommissioning of Monju reactor
Edit Japan Times 16 Sep 2016
Toshimitsu Motegi, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Policy Research Council, on Friday called for decommissioning the Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in central Japan as a cost-effective step for the troubled facility. In an interview, Motegi said that he cannot think of any option other than decommissioning for the reactor in Tsuruga in appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....
This umbilical cord phone charger is the creepiest thing you'll see today
Edit Digital Spy 12 Aug 2016Change of venue denied for Okinawa slaying suspect
Edit Stars and Stripes 04 Aug 2016
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japan’s highest court has rejected a U.S. base worker’s request to move his trial on murder and rape charges from Okinawa to Tokyo ... Gadson’s attorney, Toshimitsu Takaesu, said extensive media coverage had influenced public opinion. The Aug ... The court also said lay judges are appointed through a procedure that assures fairness and neutrality ... “Furthermore, I did not rape her ... sumida.chiyomi@stripes.com ... ....
Newly reshuffled Cabinet must speed economic revitalization
Edit The Japan News 04 Aug 2016
The newly reshuffled third Cabinet led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been inaugurated ... Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the General Council, was appointed as secretary general; Hiroyuki Hosoda, executive acting secretary general, was named Nikai’s successor as chairman of the General Council; and Toshimitsu Motegi, chairman of the Election Strategy Committee, was appointed chairman of the Policy Research Council ... Joint efforts needed ... N....
Abe’s new Cabinet launched with 8 first timers, 3 women
Edit The Japan News 03 Aug 2016
The Yomiuri ShimbunThe reshuffled Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was launched Wednesday, with the 19 fixed ministers including eight first-time members and three women ... “With the LDP’s best policy experts and heavyweight economic ministers, we will drive our growth strategy much further.” ... Toshimitsu Motegi, 60, director general of the Election Strategy Committee, was picked as chairman of the Policy Research Council ... Speech ... + - ... ....
Inada to be named defense minister
Edit The Japan News 02 Aug 2016
Inada, 57, will be the second woman to serve as Japan’s defense minister, after Yuriko Koike, who was elected Tokyo governor on Sunday ... Ishiba is expected to leave the cabinet ... Hosoda to head LDP council ... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the party’s president, also plans to move Toshimitsu Motegi, 60, from his current post of chairman of the Election Strategy Committee to be chairman of the Policy Research Council, the sources said ... + - ... ....
Ruling bloc catches up in Tokyo gov. race / Opposition parties feel a sense of crisis
Edit The Japan News 24 Jul 2016
The Yomiuri ShimbunBoth the ruling and opposition parties are trying their best to gather more support in the belief that it is still possible to beat former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike in the Tokyo gubernatorial election ... Koike has no organizational support from any political parties ... A different approach ... Toshimitsu Motegi, chairman of the LDP’s election strategy committee, said ... Now the situation is dramatically changing ... Speech ... + -....
Father of Okinawa homicide victim wants execution for suspect
Edit Stars and Stripes 16 Jul 2016
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An Okinawan father wants the death penalty for a U.S. civilian base worker charged in his daughter’s slaying ... Gadson’s attorney, Toshimitsu Takaesu, declined to comment, though he said it is unlikely his client will be executed. “The death penalty is expected when more than one person was murdered,” Takaesu said ... military presence ... . ....
Father of Okinawa homicide victim wants execution for US base worker
Edit Stars and Stripes 15 Jul 2016
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An Okinawan father wants the death penalty for a U.S. civilian base worker charged in his daughter’s slaying ... Gadson’s attorney, Toshimitsu Takaesu, declined to comment, though he said it is unlikely his client will be executed. “The death penalty is expected when more than one person was murdered,” Takaesu said ... military presence ... ....
North Korea, a smokers' paradise, now urging people to quit
Edit The Times of India 06 Jul 2016
PYONGYANG. BACKGROUNDX. How long before North Korea can nuke a US city? ... The US military faces a much bigger problem ... And nobody knows where it is ... "This has been going on under three generations of the Kim family ruling North Korea and it has become a tradition that is also a demonstration of the leader's power over the people and his sexual power," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University, told The Daily Telegraph....
Defendant in Okinawa slaying seeks change of venue
Edit Stars and Stripes 05 Jul 2016
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A U.S. base worker has denied premeditation in the brutal slaying of an Okinawan woman and wants his case moved to Tokyo, saying he can’t get a fair trial on the tiny Japanese island due to extensive media coverage ... “I did not have the intention of killing the victim,” Gadson wrote ... Defense attorney Toshimitsu Takaesu requested that jurisdiction of the case be changed to Tokyo District Court ... Gen ... Takeshi Onaga ... ....
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