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In modern Japan, 'alchemy' is used only metaphorically — when politicians and religious figures with no moral sense or shame make money through dirty means.

That scandal isn't something we can keep under wraps forever. Someone's going to sniff it out eventually.

We have to find the money somehow, Mr. Chairman. It's for the children.

Democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Workers of the world, unite!

Should a Third World War ever break out, there would be no winner.

What percentage of winning an election is about how you look?

The only people saying Saddam isn't a threat are left-leaning anti-war activists.

And if this bill doesn't pass, what responsibility will you take?

Can we really say 'no' to the United States?

But even before being crushed by the Reagan administration and the Supreme Court, OSHA was a farce.

The suicide bomber fired at former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but the bullet missed.

The LDP rode on the coattails of Koizumi's popularity.

I tried asking the assembly member to help me find a job, but was brushed off dismissively.

Still not resolved? Is it the prefecture or the central government that's responsible?

Thaksin, the former Thai prime minister who was ousted in the September 2006 military coup and had been in de facto exile, returned to Thailand on the 28th, roughly a year and a half after leaving.

He has the caliber to become a future pillar of the nation.

Among the colony's people suffering under Earth's oppressive rule, a faction plotting to break the status quo through terrorism was born.

Japan today is charging down the road to self-destruction, don't you think?

He starts to look like a cunning, fox-like prime minister who exploits his power to the fullest for his own self-preservation.

This act called terrorism, which in an instant robs us of our peaceful, happy days, can truly be called an enemy of all humanity.

As for visits to Yasukuni Shrine, each cabinet minister is left to make their own independent judgment.

War isn't something to be taken lightly, and amending the constitution doesn't mean we're 'desperate to go to war.'

I'd like the government to show a firm response, not one that gets called half-hearted.

The government appears to be desperate to silence the organizations that have been working to raise awareness of the human rights situation in Sudan.

Today's topic is 'the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.'

Over issues like textbooks, historical perception, and the prime minister's visits to Yasukuni Shrine, Japan-China relations are in troubled waters.

Politicians from various countries made pilgrimages to the White House.

The two countries are on the brink of conflict.

Japan's long-term care insurance system starts next year, right?