Japan PM under fire over suicide, pension mess
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Fallout from a scandal-tainted minister's suicide and mismanaged pensions swirled on Tuesday, threatening the chances that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling camp can win a July upper house election.
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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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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set for a rocky appearance before Australia's parliament with war veterans on Tuesday calling for an apology over Japanese war crimes and environmentalists demanding an end to whaling.
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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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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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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe,   turned his attention on Thursday to the line-up for his cabinet   amid concerns about how the hawkish, youthful leader will cope   with diplomatic and economic challenges ahead.
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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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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumiâs support rating has plunged to 37 percent as a growing number of people oppose his decision to extend Japanâs troop deployment in Iraq, an opinion poll report said Sunday.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has fallen to its lowest level since he took office, dented by the suicide of a scandal-hit minister and government bungling of pension records, an opinion poll showed on Monday.
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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized for gastrointestinal inflammation caused by exhaustion and stress Thursday. His hospitalization comes a day after announcing his resignation following a sound electoral beating and the resignations of several government ministers.
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Japan's prime minister met and apologized on Tuesday to hepatitis patients at the centre of a high-profile scandal over tainted blood products as he tried to quell a row that risks further eroding his support ratings.
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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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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 Wednesday.
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Japan&#39;s outgoing prime minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized with exhaustion Thursday as his finance minister kick-started the race to succeed him by declaring his candidacy for the top job.
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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 Wednesday.
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Japan's prime minister sternly reprimanded the nation's defense minister for saying the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an inevitable way of ending World War II, and asked him Monday to refrain from making similar remarks.
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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, has attempted suicide but his fate is unknown, Kyodo news agency said on Monday.