Japan's Fukuda elected PM, to form new cabinet
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Japan's Yasuo Fukuda was elected prime minister on Tuesday, setting the stage for the seasoned moderate to form a cabinet that must confront a feisty opposition keen to force an election.
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Japan's Yasuo Fukuda looks likely to cruise to victory in a ruling party leadership race on Sunday to become the next prime minister. Then comes the hard part.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has reshuffled his Cabinet to try to boost his popularity and bolster his ability to implement reforms.
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Momentum built in Japan's ruling party on Friday to back 71-year-old lawmaker Yasuo Fukuda, an advocate of warm ties with Asian neighbors, to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after his shock resignation.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi replaced key ministers and ruling party leaders in a shuffle Monday aimed at solidifying his power and building momentum for his troubled reforms program.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Monday shuffled his Cabinet and created a new ministerial post to facilitate the privatization of the national postal service.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will reshuffle his Cabinet and pick key officials for the country&#39;s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday, said Shinzo Abe, secretary general of the party.
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is to reshuffle his Cabinet, in a bid to shore up support for his government.
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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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Japan's new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and his cabinet are formally sworn in by Emperor Akihito.
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Japan's governing party elects Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe as next leader, and possibly prime minister.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has picked veteran lawmakers for key posts in a new cabinet line-up to be unveiled on Monday, media said, to try to revive faltering support after a massive election defeat.
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Japan's finance minister became the first to launch a bid to lead the country on Thursday as the ruling party scrambled to avoid a policy vacuum after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shock resignation.
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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
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his Cabinet and the ruling party leadership Monday in hopes of solidifying his flagging political power and boosting his ability to carry out reforms.
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Japanese Prime Minister reshuffled his ruling party leadership Monday morning and is set to do the same to his cabinet later in the day as he is ardently pushing forward sweeping reforms.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro  reshuffled his cabinet Monday to try to boost his popularity  and give impetus to reform -- particularly postal privatisation  -- but the mix of familiar faces with relative unknowns raised  some doubts about whether he would achieve those goals.