Koizumi to Pick Ministers Who Back Japan Post Sale
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi today is choosing cabinet ministers and party leaders who support the sale of Japan Post, the world&#39;s largest savings bank, as he seeks to quell opposition from within his party.
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Japan's ruling party was poised on Sunday to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian neighbors, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister  Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet slid sharply to 37 percent in  a poll taken after his decision to extend the mandate of  Japanese troops serving in Iraq, a national daily said on  Sunday.
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Japan's new Agriculture Minister   Toshikatsu Matsuoka said on Wednesday he would follow the   stance set by his predecessor of rejecting a U.S. proposal to   start discussions on easing beef trade rules later this year.
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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 yesterday reshuffled his Cabinet for the third year in a row, this time expressly to push the privatisation of the nation&#39;s postal services which he has made his highest-priority reform task.
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s politically sensitive plan to privatize Japan&#39;s postal system and spin off its businesses in 2007 was adopted by the Cabinet on Friday, handing the Japanese leader a victory on a reform issue he has aggressively promoted
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Japan&#39;s ruling party is to choose a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 23, a senior lawmaker said Thursday.
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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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Japan's ruling party on Sunday picked Yasuo Fukuda, an advocate of warmer ties with Asian neighbors, to be the next prime minister, but the 71-year-old lawmaker faces a likely policy deadlock in a divided parliament.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his cabinet yesterday, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms in the world&#39;s second-largest economy.
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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 ruling party is to elect a new leader, in a vote that will also almost certainly decide the next PM.
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TOKYO The cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi decided Thursday to extend the mission of Japanese troops in Iraq despite the growing opposition of voters, political opponents and members of his own party.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party on Sunday chose moderate political veteran Yasuo Fukuda as the country&#39;s next prime minister, seeking safe hands after a disastrous year under conservative Shinzo Abe.
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Yasuo Fukuda, a seasoned moderate lawmaker, was chosen Japan's prime minister on Tuesday, then tapped veteran ministers from his predecessor's cabinet to confront a resurgent opposition keen to force an election.