Japan PM Abe quits after year of scandal
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced his resignation on Wednesday after a year in power dogged by scandals, an election rout and a crisis over Japan's support for U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan.
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South Korea's prime minister stepped down Wednesday, saying she would think about running for the nation's top job.
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Japanese cabinet ministers tendered their  resignations on Monday, setting the stage for Prime Minister  Junichiro Koizumi to make new appointments aimed at boosting  his popularity and tightening his grip on power after a  set-back in July's upper house elections.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling party has resigned after acknowledging his father was a military police officer for Japan&#39;s occupying forces in Korea.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's health minister was under pressure to quit on Wednesday for calling women "birth-giving machines", with opposition parties poised to boycott debate on the budget unless he stepped down.
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The president of troubled retailer Daiei announced his resignation Friday, two days after he was forced by lenders to seek a government bailout.
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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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TOKYO, Sept. 13 -- The departure of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stunned Japan on Wednesday by announcing that he was quitting after a year in power, appears likely to weaken his party's long hold on political power, embolden an already cocky opposition and stall economic reform.
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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, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling camp ahead of a national election this month.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told executives of his ruling coalition he intends to resign, a ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling Uri Party resigned on Thursday after saying his father had served as a military police officer during Japan&#39;s 1910-1945 colonial rule on the peninsula.
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The chairman of Taiwan's ruling DPP party, You Shyi-kun, resigns after being charged with corruption.
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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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Japanese stocks fell Wednesday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to resign after a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party resigned Saturday after prosecutors indicted him on graft charges, while the island's vice president, facing similar charges, said she would fight the allegations.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe named a new farm minister on Friday, four days after a scandal-tainted predecessor committed suicide, as opposition parties turned the heat up over mismanaged pensions and scandals.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui  left for Japan on Monday on a controversial visit that has  sparked furious protests from China.