Japan scandal-tainted minister kills himself: NHK
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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka -- under fire for a series of political funding scandals -- has killed himself, NHK said on Monday.
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Japan&#39;s farm minister resigned on Monday  over illegal dealings at a farmers&#39; 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 government rushed to clean up a damaging political scandal Friday, pushing bills to fix pension system errors through parliament's lower house and replacing a Cabinet minister who committed suicide.
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A Japanese civilian taken hostage in Iraq by militants has been killed, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday, citing a member of Japan's ruling party. But national broadcaster NHK said the government was still trying to confirm the information.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he would resign, ending a year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Japan's scandal-hit agriculture minister, following his suicide.
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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 defense minister resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly tapped a woman for the post to try to quell the furor ahead of an election this month.
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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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Contaminated Chinese dumplings in Japan were likely poisoned on purpose, the health minister says.
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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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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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A Georgian official dies in an apparent suicide, two days after the PM is found dead from gas poisoning.
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Former Japanese defense minister  Fukushiro Nukaga will become finance minister in Prime Minister  Shinzo Abe&#39;s reshuffled cabinet, public broadcaster NHK  reported on Monday.
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Blow for unpopular Abe government amid expenses scandal.
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Japan's agricultural minister died Monday after reportedly hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in parliament in a political scandal, officials said.
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Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said on Tuesday he would resign over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of two Japanese cities, dealing another blow to the ruling camp ahead of an election this month.