Japan farm minister resigns in blow to PM-NHK
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, public broadcaster NHK reported, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet.
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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.
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As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
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Shinzo Abe tells ruling party officials he will resign as Japan's PM, local media reports say.
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Japan's agriculture minister is in a critical condition after being found hanged in Tokyo, reports say.
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Japan's ruling bloc lost a key local election on Sunday, a possible bellwether of public support after a Cabinet minister caused an uproar by calling women "birth-giving machines."
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat, has told ruling party leaders he intends to resign, an official said today.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he was resigning because he there would be a better chance of continuing Japan's support for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan under a new leader.
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet committed suicide on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support has already slumped ahead of a July election.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned abruptly on Wednesday after a year in power, has for weeks been a walking political corpse.
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Afghanistan's counter-narcotics minister has resigned, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday, as the country brings in what is expected to be another record harvest of opium, a crop which is funding Taliban insurgents.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's counternarcotics minister has resigned only weeks after Afghan laborers finished cultivating an opium poppy crop that could exceed last year's record haul.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s entire Cabinet resigned Monday ahead of a planned reshuffle that Japanese leader hopes will solidify his power and boost his ability to carry out reforms.
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Blow for unpopular Abe government amid expenses scandal.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet resigned Tuesday, clearing the way for new ruling party leader Yasuo Fukuda to be named by parliament as his successor.
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A scandal-tainted Cabinet member who headed Japan's powerful agriculture ministry hanged himself just hours before he faced questioning Monday over alleged bookkeeping fraud.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet resigned Tuesday, clearing the way for new ruling party leader Yasuo Fukuda to be named by parliament as his successor later in the day.