Frontrunner to succeed Japan's PM says will run in key election
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said he would run for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a race that will decide who succeeds Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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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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HIROSHIMA, Japan  - Shinzo Abe formally entered   the race on Friday to be Japan's next prime minister, saying   his country must forge a stronger role on the world stage and   better ties with Asia.
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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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Tokyo must keep a thaw in ties with China on track, the frontrunner to be Japan's next prime minister said on Sunday, while urging Beijing to better explain its ballooning military spending.
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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&#39;s ruling coalition is on course for defeat in critical elections this month, which could cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job, a survey said Wednesday.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner to be Japan&#39;s next prime minister, pledged Sunday to strengthen ties with China and said he would not visit a war shrine seen as a symbol of Tokyo&#39;s wartime past.
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TOKYO -- Japan's likely next premier, outspoken conservative Shinzo Abe, pressed for summits with China and South Korea yesterday after being tapped to head the country's ruling party in a vote heralding a swing to the right.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be Yasuo Fukuda selected his party lieutenants on Monday as he headed for battles with a combative opposition and calls for an early general election after his predecessor's hapless year in office.
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TOKYO, Sept. 26 -- Nationalist Shinzo Abe, a proponent of a tight alliance with the United States and a more assertive military, won election as Japan's new prime minister Tuesday, scoring comfortable majorities in both houses.
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The moderate veteran politician Yasuo Fukuda easily won election as president of Japan's struggling ruling party on Sunday, assuring his selection as the new prime minister in a parliamentary vote later this week.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Yasuo Fukuda, named his party lieutenants on Monday as he braced for a showdown with a combative opposition amid calls for early elections after a disastrous year for the ruling coalition.
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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 AFP) - Shinzo Abe, Japan's frontrunner to be the next prime minister, wants to resume talks with China on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum in November, a Japanese daily has said.
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In an election that was never seriously in doubt, Shinzo Abe becomes the leader of Japan's ruling party - and almost certainly its new Prime Minister. The real question, however, is what he'll do next
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Japan's ruling party is likely to see big losses in the Upper House elections on Sunday.