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2010 FEBRUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 23
Shii proposes budget recompilation on 3 key points to Hatoyama Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo held talks with Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio in the Diet on February 17 and submitted a JCP proposal for a recompilation of the FY2010 national draft budget to fundamentally redress the past undemocratic administration and to change the political course.
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of eequalityf - Part I An gequal partnershiph ? This has become the keyword of the Japan-U.S. relationship this year marking the 50th anniversary of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which was signed on January 19, 1960. The Hatoyama Cabinet calls for establishment of a gclose and equal Japan-U.S. alliance.h U.S. President Barack Obama says, g[T]he United States and Japan are equal partners. We have been and we will continue to be.h However, do we really have an equal partnership with the U.S.?
