Japanese Premier Ill, Party Waits on Successor
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized on Thursday morning, and the governing Liberal Democratic Party pushed back the date to choose his successor.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's backers are trying to set the stage for him to keep his job if his ruling bloc gets trounced in a parliamentary election on Sunday, but analysts wonder whether the strategy will work.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce a new cabinet line-up on Monday to try to shore up faltering support a month after his coalition suffered a massive election defeat.
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The No. 2 official in Japan's ruling party sharply criticized U.S. Democratic challenger John Kerry's North Korea policy Friday, adding that he hoped President Bush would be re-elected, media said.
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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized for stress and exhaustion Thursday, a day after announcing his resignation, as his party scrambled to find a replacement amid growing calls for a general election.
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Campaigning began on Thursday for a Japanese upper house election on July 29 that could cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job and usher in a period of policy stagnation if his bloc loses big.
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A visibly weak Shinzo Abe on Monday bowed out as Japan&#39;s premier with an apology for his abrupt resignation as he made his first public appearance since checking into a hospital 11 days ago.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned abruptly yesterday after a year in power, has for weeks been a walking political corpse.
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Japan's ruling party scrambled on Thursday to find a new leader and avoid a policy vacuum after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shock resignation the previous day, just as parliamentary debate was set to begin.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's  health minister was under pressure to quit on Wednesday for  calling women "birth-giving machines," with opposition parties  poised to boycott debate on the budget unless he stepped down.
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party hopes the election Sunday of a new party leader will help voters forget his predecessor.
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Japan's ruling party is to elect a new leader, in a vote that will also almost certainly decide the next PM.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's likely next premier, is one of his country's most popular politicians. His problem is that the one before him, Junichiro Koizumi, is even more popular.
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The largest faction in Japan&#39;s ruling party plunged into a crisis over a funding scandal on Monday as speculation mounted that prosecutors were about to question a former prime minister who had led the group.
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To keep the economy rolling, Japan's new leader must push ahead with reform
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Japan's ruling party is voting for a new leader to replace PM Junichiro Koizumi, who steps down this month.
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Japan's Yasuo Fukuda looks likely to cruise to victory in a ruling party leadership race on Sunday to become the next prime minister. Then comes the hard part.