Japan's Abe faces uphill battle in parliamentary vote
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Japan's ruling party is likely to see big losses in the Upper House elections on Sunday.
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Economic reform may test Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched a media offensive to win back foundering voter support, which has slid below the key 30 percent level ahead of an upper house election this month.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's year in office has been a disaster for the ruling party: Scandals sapped voter faith in the government and the opposition won elections for the parliament's upper house, while unattended economic and social problems festered.
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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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Shinzo Abe, an advocate of a more   muscular Japanese foreign policy and restoring traditional   values, is poised to win a party leadership contest on   Wednesday, setting the stage for his election as prime minister   next week.
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Voters want Shinzo Abe to prioritize domestic issues over regional relationships.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party was poised on Sunday  to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian  neighbours, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an  effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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Japan's hawkish next prime minister Shinzo Abe has got to work on his 52nd birthday amid warnings he must overcome a lack of experience to survive in the shadow of Junichiro Koizumi.
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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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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new cabinet line-up of veteran lawmakers got a lukewarm reception from media and voters on Tuesday, with newspapers warning that the crisis for the unpopular Japanese leader was far from over.
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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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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's public support rate has slumped to its lowest level since he took office last September, two newspaper surveys published on Monday showed, increasing chances that his ruling camp could lose its majority in a July upper house election.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s  support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many  analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday,  just over a month before an upper house 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.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, warning that his party faces its worst ever crisis, prepared for a fresh showdown with the opposition Friday as a fractured parliament opened for a new session.
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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.