Koizumi keeps Japan guessing on cabinet reshuffle
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, back in Tokyo after an 11-day diplomatic mission to the Americas, hunkered down with senior ruling party officials on Friday to focus on a major reshuffle of cabinet and top party posts.
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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 PM Shinzo Abe is to reshuffle his Cabinet, in a bid to shore up support for his government.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe,   turned his attention on Thursday to the line-up for his cabinet   amid concerns about how the hawkish, youthful leader will cope   with diplomatic and economic challenges ahead.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, forced to defend yet another cabinet minister from scandal allegations, is finding little scope to pitch his core conservative agenda ahead of a national election this month.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday reshuffled his Cabinet for the third year in a row, this time expressly to push the privatisation of the nation&#39;s postal services which he has made his highest-priority reform task.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his Cabinet and the ruling party leadership Monday in hopes of solidifying his flagging political power and boosting his ability to carry out reforms.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked familiar faces for key posts in a sweeping reshuffle of his cabinet on Monday, but analysts doubted whether the changes would do much to revive the Japanese leader's badly sagging popularity.
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Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a major cabinet reshuffle Monday, shifting his foreign minister to a top party job as part of a shake-up aimed at salvaging his government.
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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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Japanâs Cabinet today approved a plan to keep Japanese troops in Iraq for another year. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a vocal supporter of the US-led invasion of Iraq, had argued the dispatch was needed
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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 will keep its troops in Iraq for another year, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Thursday, even though most voters want to end what is the nation&#39;s riskiest military mission since World War II.
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Japan's new prime minister names his economic team but is urged to outline plans to maintain Japan's growth.
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PM Junichiro Koizumi says Japan is not satisfied with North Korea's explanations over Japanese it kidnapped.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed Nobutaka Machimura to succeed Yoriko Kawaguchi as foreign minister in a cabinet reshuffle Monday, while retaining Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda and Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce a new cabinet line-up on Monday to try to shore up faltering support a month after his coalition suffered a massive election defeat.