Japan minister commits suicide, adding to PM's woes
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet committed suicide on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support has already slumped ahead of a July election.
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A Japanese government delegation on a visit to North Korea met Friday with a man supposed to be abductee Megumi Yokota&#39;s husband and a doctor at a hospital where Pyongyang claimed she committed suicide, according to the top government spokesman.
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The support rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s cabinet has dropped to a new low of 30 percent after his scandal-hit farm minister committed suicide, a poll showed Monday.
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OSAKA, Japan -- Mamoru Takuma's wife had heard that executions happened only when Parliament was in recess, and rumor had it the justice minister was planning to resign in the next week or two, another bad sign.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned abruptly on Wednesday after a year in power, has for weeks been a walking political corpse.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat, has told ruling party leaders he intends to resign, an official said today.
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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 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to reprimand his defense minister over a gaffe on Monday, as his cabinet's support rates slid below the critical 30 percent level in a poll weeks before an upper house election.
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A Japanese government panel tells schools to tackle bullying, after several suicides are linked to the problem.
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Japan's new environment minister admitted on Wednesday to mistakes in past political fund reports, dealing yet another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has been plagued by a slew of scandals in his cabinet.
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The author of "the Rape of  Nanking," an acclaimed history of Japanese brutality against  China in the 1930s, has committed suicide, officials said on  Thursday.
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Japan's government rushed to clean up a damaging political scandal Friday, pushing bills to fix pension system errors through parliament's lower house and replacing a Cabinet minister who committed suicide.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will  announce a new cabinet on Monday to try to shore up faltering  support a month after his ruling coalition suffered a massive  election defeat.
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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 Shinzo Abe was  forced to reprimand his defense minister over a gaffe on  Monday, as his cabinet&#39;s support rates slid below the critical  30 percent level in a poll weeks before an upper house  election.
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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, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly tapped a woman for the post to try to quell the furor ahead of an election this month.
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Japan's new farming minister admits illegal dealings at a private group he heads, in a fresh blow to the government.