Japan&#39;s cabinet suffers poll doldrums
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Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s cabinet has plunged to its lowest point since it was appointed, polls showed Monday, with voters angry over the mismanaged welfare system.
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TOKYO Sept. 27, 2004 - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his Cabinet on Monday, in hopes of solidifying his power and boosting his ability to carry out reforms.
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Japanese stocks were mixed Thursday as traders were jittery over the outlook for the government after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation a day earlier.
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The largest faction in Japan&#39;s ruling party plunged into a crisis over a funding scandal on Monday as speculation mounted that prosecutors were about to question a former prime minister who had led the group.
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Half of Japanese voters want the ruling coalition to lose elections next month, which could cost beleaguered Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job, a poll showed Monday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's backers are trying to set the stage for him to keep his job if his ruling bloc gets trounced in a parliamentary election on Sunday, but analysts wonder whether the strategy will work.
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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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A dovish ruling party elder was seen pulling ahead Saturday in the race to become Japan&#39;s next prime minister after he and a former foreign minister formally applied to succeed Shinzo Abe.
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With his approval ratings sinking, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today formed a new cabinet made up of veterans.
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Japan's ruling bloc lost a key local election on Sunday, a possible bellwether of public support after a Cabinet minister caused an uproar by calling women "birth-giving machines."
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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 slumped ahead of a July election.
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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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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  reshuffled his cabinet Monday to boost his popularity and give  impetus to reform -- especially postal reform -- but the mix of  familiar faces with unknowns raised doubts about whether he  would achieve those goals.
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Support for Japan's embattled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tumbled to a new low of 25.7 percent in a poll published on Friday, just over two weeks ahead of a crucial upper house election.
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Japan's opposition parties on Sunday kept up pressure on the health minister to resign for calling women "birth-giving machines", as voting began in two local elections the results of which could decide his fate.
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Campaigning began on Thursday for a Japanese upper house election on July 29 that could cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job and usher in a period of policy stagnation if his bloc loses big.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rebuked his defense minister on Monday for remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of two Japanese cities, as his poll rating slid below 30 percent just weeks before an upper house election.