A Showdown for Abe in Japan
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is staking his job on Japan's continued support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it's matters closer to home that threaten him most
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, under fire after a cabinet minister killed himself, scrambled on Thursday to quell another furor over mismanaged pensions that has hurt his popularity ahead of a July election.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner in the race to be Japan's next leader, is due to announce his bid for the job.
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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Japan's opposition went on the offensive Monday, pledging to push for an early election and spelling stalemate for the divided parliament's new session.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will  visit China on October 8 and South Korea the next day for talks  with their leaders in a bid to repair ties frayed by disputes  over their bitter wartime past, but North Korea's nuclear  threat looks set to grab a prominent place on the agenda.
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Japanese leaders struggled on Thursday to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq who took a Japanese traveler hostage as the 48-hour deadline approached for the young man's threatened beheading. Tokyo stood firm in its refusal to meet the kidnappers' demand to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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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, just as parliamentary debate was set to begin.
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Japan grappled Wednesday with the fallout from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a Tokyo war shrine, as diplomats reportedly worked to mend frayed ties with China and South Korea.
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As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
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A hefty majority of Japanese voters   support the country's new prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe, two   media surveys published on Friday showed, but many also have   doubts about his leadership capabilities.
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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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Yasuo Fukuda looks likely to win the leadership of Japan's ruling party on Sunday and become the nation's next prime minister, a job in which he will face a divided parliament and conflicting policy pressures.
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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 former foreign minister acknowledged Sunday he faced probable defeat in the race to replace ailing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but said he would stay in the running for the sake of staging an open election.
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The Bush administration is closely watching whether Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation will hurt Japanese cooperation in U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan.
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An aging politician&#39;s desire to visit his alma mater has turned into a diplomatic confrontation between Japan and China, adding one more irritant to an already strained relationship between Asia&#39;s biggest powers.