New cabinet no quick fix for Abe: press
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s new cabinet line-up does not provide a quick fix for his beleaguered government, even if it signals a shift away from his conservative ideology, major papers said Tuesday.
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet has committed suicide, media reported on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support had already dived ahead of a July election.
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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 slumped ahead of a July election.
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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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Fallout from a scandal-tainted minister&#39;s  suicide and mismanaged pensions swirled on Tuesday, threatening  the chances that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s ruling  camp can win a July upper house election.
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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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With an eye to North Korea and China, Prime Minister Koizumi&#39;s Cabinet is set to pass new guidelines Friday. By Bennett Richardson | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is set to reshuffle his cabinet on Monday in order to gain the leverage to silence critics within his ruling party of his unpopular reform plan.
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Japan's prime minister-in-waiting, Shinzo   Abe, picked a pro-growth party heavyweight and a hard-liner on   China to fill key ruling party posts, media said on Monday, in   the first clues to the personnel line up in his administration.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought on Sunday to contain fallout from his remarks about women forced to act as wartime sex slaves for Japanese soldiers as the furor threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and U.S. leaders.
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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he hopes to go on a fence-mending tour of China and South Korea but refused to give ground on emotionally charged disputes over wartime history.
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Japan's new environment minister admitted on Wednesday to mistakes in past political fund reports, dealing yet another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has been plagued by a slew of scandals in his cabinet.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was  forced to reprimand his defense minister over a gaffe on  Monday, as his cabinet&#39;s support rates slid below the critical  30 percent level in a poll weeks before an upper house  election.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, said there was no need to make a freshly worded apology over the nation's war atrocities.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolts. Blame the system.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked veteran lawmakers for key posts in a reshuffled cabinet on Monday, but analysts questioned how much the changes would restore his popularity after last month's huge election defeat.
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Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a major cabinet reshuffle Monday, shifting his foreign minister to a top party job as part of a shake-up aimed at salvaging his government.