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Japan's politics often a family business

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In Japan's election on Sunday, the two candidates for the prime minister's post are carrying on a family battle that started in the 1950s when their grandfathers were premiers. The clash of the political blue bloods -- incumbent Taro Aso and his rival Yukio Hatoyama -- casts a spotlight on Japan's rich and powerful clans that have dominated, and some say stifled, post-war politics. About one third of Japan's parliamentarians are hereditary politicians -- often derided as "botchan" or "babies...Read Full Story

US, EU irked by stalled Japan Post privatisation

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Japanese, US and EU trade officials were due to meet in Geneva on Friday to discuss "level playing field concerns" about the sprawling Japan Post group, US officials said. The centre-left government that took power in Japan last September has slammed the brakes on a plan by previous conservative leaders to privatise the group, which boasts massive banking and insurance arms. The US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization Michael Punke and EU Charge d'Affaires John Clarke were to meet Japan...Read Full Story

Japan's politics often a family business

| From afp.com
In Japan's election next month, the two candidates for the prime minister's post are carrying on a family battle that started in the 1950s when their grandfathers were premiers. The clash of the political bluebloods -- incumbent Taro Aso and his rival Yukio Hatoyama -- casts a spotlight on Japan's rich and powerful clans that have dominated, and some say stifled, post-war politics. About one third of Japan's parliamentarians are hereditary politicians -- often derided as "botchan" or "babies...Read Full Story

Japan's ex-PM Koizumi gets a superhero role

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Japan's former premier Junichiro Koizumi, known for crooning Elvis Presley songs while in office, is lending his voice to a superhero movie, reports said Tuesday. Lion-maned Koizumi, 67, has provided the voiceover for the extraterrestrial hero who fights not political opponents in the Diet legislature but monsters and aliens from outer space, according to the movie's producers. Koizumi, now retired from politics, used his offbeat charisma to rule Japan for more than five years until 2006, in...Read Full Story

After quitting politics, Japan's Koizumi turns superhero

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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - One of Japan's most popular leaders, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, is going where few politicians have dared to go -- he's taking on the role of TV's masked superhero, Ultraman King. The 67-year-old Koizumi, a retired politician and a staunch Elvis Presley fan, recently lent his voice to the character of senior superhero Ultraman King, a respected leader of the Ultraman clan, for a new film. The red and silver-clad Ultraman is regarded as a cultural...Read Full Story
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Sales tax shouldn't be the priority: Takenaka
Before hiking the 5 percent consumption tax, the government should first cut trillions of yen in public spending and adopt measures to spur economic growth, former economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka says. "Fiscal reconstruction cannot be achieved just by increasing taxes," Takenaka, a professor at Keio University who served in the early 2000s as an adviser to then Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, said...  
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Keep North engaged, pressure on: Koizumi
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday called for continuing dialogue with and pressure on North Korea following the death of its leader Kim Jong Il, stressing the need to maintain Tokyo's stance toward the communist country. "Dialogue and pressure, there is no need to change this policy," the former leader of the Liberal Democratic Party said.  
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Ex-Japan PM Koizumi recalls Kim
FORMER Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, one of few developed-nation leaders ever to have had direct talks with Kim Jong-Il, today recalled the North Korean as a "straight ...  
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