Japan PM under fire over suicide, pension mess
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Fallout from a scandal-tainted minister&#39;s  suicide and mismanaged pensions swirled on Tuesday, threatening  the chances that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s ruling  camp can win a July upper house election.
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Japan's Prime Minister is losing traction on affairs close to voters, polls say
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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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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka -- under fire for a series of political funding scandals -- has killed himself, NHK said on Monday.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is  set for a rocky appearance before Australia&#39;s parliament with  war veterans on Tuesday calling for an apology over Japanese  war crimes and environmentalists demanding an end to whaling.
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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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Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda vented his frustration Tuesday at media coverage of former Taiwan President Lee Tenghui&#39;s private visit to Japan.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has voiced concern about China's satellite-destroying test, charging that Beijing had violated international law.
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EMPEROR Akihito has joined the controversy surrounding his daughter-in-law Masako&#39;s depressive illness by describing criticism of the Japanese imperial family as painful and untrue.
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Japan&#039;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won Israeli support for its accusations of a North Korean military threat, while urging the Jewish state to take &amp;quot;rational action&amp;quot; in the face of an escalating Middle East crisis.
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South Korea criticises Japan's PM for questioning whether women were forced to be sex slaves in World War II.
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A scandal-tainted Cabinet member who headed Japan's powerful agriculture ministry hanged himself just hours before he faced questioning Monday over alleged bookkeeping fraud.
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The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet edged up slightly on a latest survey, with the unpopular pension reform program advocatedby him remaining
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new cabinet line-up of veteran lawmakers got a lukewarm reception from media and voters on Tuesday, with newspapers warning that the crisis for the unpopular Japanese leader was far from over.
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Japan's hawkish next prime minister Shinzo Abe has got to work on his 52nd birthday amid warnings he must overcome a lack of experience to survive in the shadow of Junichiro Koizumi.
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls on sumo wrestling officials to take action, after the death of a trainee.