Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
After a short period of Democratic Party administration, Yoshida returned in late 1948 and continued to serve as prime minister until 1954. Even before Japan regained full sovereignty, the government had rehabilitated nearly 80,000 people who had been purged, many of whom returned to their former political and government positions.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of countries by system of government" – news ...
Emperor Jimmu was the first Emperor of Japan and the ancestor of all of the Emperors that followed. [33] He is, according to Japanese mythology, the direct descendant of Amaterasu, the sun goddess of the native Shinto religion, through Ninigi, his great-grandfather. [34] [35] The current emperor of Japan is Naruhito.
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister after winning his party’s leadership contest on Friday, following a crowded race that ended in a runoff vote.
Japan Democratic: 52. Hatoyama I. I [54] 1955: 53. Hatoyama I. II [55] — Liberal Democratic: 54. Hatoyama I. III [56] Tanzan Ishibashi 石橋 湛山 Rep for Shizuoka 2nd (1884–1973) 23 December 1956 25 February 1957 65 days — Liberal Democratic: 55. Ishibashi [57] Nobusuke Kishi 岸 信介 Rep for Yamaguchi 2nd (1896–1987) 25 February ...
The LDP's new leader will have to work with Washington to address North Korea’s weapons program and China's growing military might.
Renho, 48, hopes to repair the party's image, battered by three years in power that were plagued by infighting, policy flip flops and unkept promises.