Shinzo Abe is currently the Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Japan. In September, 2006, Abe was elected as the president of the LDP. He has a commanding majority in the lower house, and will likely succeed...
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Shinzo Abe is currently the Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Japan. In September, 2006, Abe was elected as the president of the LDP. He has a commanding majority in the lower house, and will likely succeed Koizumi as prime minister of Japan.
TOKYO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Almost four out of five Japanese
voters want Prime Minister Taro Aso to quit within months and
just over half want the opposition to win power, a poll showed on
Monday, the latest bad news for the ruling party in an election
year. Public support for 68-year-old Aso, already slumping after
policy flip-flops and gaffes, took another hit when close ally
Shoichi Nakagawa quit as finance minister last week after being
forced to deny he was drunk at a G7 news conference... Read Full Story
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(Left to right): Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Taro Aso. Main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Yukio Hatoyama. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. Former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda. YOKOSUKA, Japan, August 25 (AFP): In Japan’s election on Sunday, the two candidates for the prime minister’s post are carrying... Read Full Story
Tokyo - Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is aiming for a parliamentary lower house election on October 26, the country’s biggest newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported Saturday.
Quoting sources within the LDP, it said the lower house of parliament would probably we dissolved on October 3, by which time the party would have a new president who would have been made prime minister by the lower house, where the LDP has a majority.
There are five candidates to succeed outgoing party... Read Full Story
According to a new book , “Scoop” by Pascal Roustain, former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan was explaining to President Bush the various ways a Japanese person would bow when meeting someone. He then got on his knees to prostrate himself before Bush in order to indicate this was the position the president wanted people to be in when conversing with him. If one considers how Bush reacted to those in America who dared opposing his political decisions, the prime minister’s position... Read Full Story
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Former Japanese prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe visited Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday morning on the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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TOKYO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Popular former Japanese Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi blasted incumbent Taro Aso on
Thursday for rejecting reforms at the core of his agenda and
questioned whether Aso could lead the ruling party to victory
at the polls. The rare public criticism by Koizumi was the latest
headache for Aso, whose support has sunk below 20 percent ahead
of an election this year the ruling bloc could well lose,
ending more than 50 years of nearly unbroken reign by the
conservative... Read Full Story
Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe signed a partnership accord with Iraq on Wednesday, on a rare visit to the country for a senior leader of the close US ally. Abe, who was premier from 2006 to 2007, travelled as a special envoy of Prime Minister Taro Aso. He flew to Baghdad after participating in the Global Competitiveness Forum in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. In Baghdad, he met President Jalal Talabani and signed the Japan-Iraq partnership, which is aimed at strengthening the... Read Full Story
Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe signed a partnership accord with Iraq Wednesday, making a rare visit to the country for a senior leader of the close US ally, the government said on Wednesday. Abe, who was premier from 2006 to 2007, travelled as a special envoy of Prime Minister Taro Aso. He flew to Baghdad after participating in the Global Competitiveness Forum in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. In Baghdad, he met Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and signed the Japan-Iraq partnership... Read Full Story
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh pledged to deepen ties in trade and investment and boost efforts to strengthen the region's defense and energy security. The leaders confirmed a shared commitment to more than triple bilateral trade to $20 billion by 2010 in a joint communiqué released after talks in New Delhi today. Abe had called for the rapid completion of a free-trade agreement in his speech to the Indian parliament. A trade agreement would... Read Full Story
The United States government in March warned T okyo it could not support Japan’s demand for return from North Korea of abducted Japanese citizens unless the Abe government reversed its contentious claim there was no proof that imperial forces forced women into sexual slavery. US Ambassador Thomas Schieffer delivered the warning and Abe agreed to abide by his nation’s 1993 apology to the “comfort women.” Abe had created an international furor on March 5 that no proof existed that the Japanese... Read Full Story
