Abe sees Japan mediator role on climate change
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of his first G8 summit, saying the Asian power would use its clout to act as a go-between in the fraught debate on climate change.
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The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.
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Shinzo Abe, an advocate of a more  muscular Japanese foreign policy and restoring traditional  values, is poised to win a party leadership contest on  Wednesday, setting the stage for his election as prime minister  next week.
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Japan wants to hold a leaders' meeting   with China sometime in October, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said   on Wednesday, adding that a visit to Beijing by new Prime   Minister Shinzo Abe was one option.
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Shinzo Abe, declaring his candidacy, said that Japan should revise the pacifist Constitution imposed on it by the United States.
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Japan's new leader Shinzo Abe wants talks with China as early as next month, his foreign minister says.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is staking his job on Japan's continued support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it's matters closer to home that threaten him most
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Front-runner Shinzo Abe has opened his bid to become Japan's next prime minister with calls for a more assertive nation but also better relations with Asian neighbors.
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Top diplomats from Japan and China are   set to meet in Tokyo at the weekend amid speculation that   Shinzo Abe may hold a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao   after he becomes Japan's next prime minister.
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Japan's new premier Shinzo Abe achieved a diplomatic breakthrough as China and South Korea agreed to resume summits, but a crisis over North Korea's nuclear program was set to overshadow his trip.
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US President George W. Bush said he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to work together to create a &quot;flexible&quot; framework to combat climate change.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left on Sunday for a summit with Chinese leaders at which he will seek a thaw in ties chilled by the wartime past, and consult on North Korea's nuclear threat.
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Japan should consider economic sanctions against North Korea if talks with the nation on abductions of Japanese citizens end without making progress, said ruling party official Shinzo Abe.
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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would soon meet with South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun as he works to patch up strained ties with Seoul and Beijing.
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A day before he becomes Japan's youngest prime minister, Shinzo Abe gave a top job to his conservative mentor Hidenao Nakagawa who got to work trying to repair relations with China.
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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he hopes to go on a fence-mending tour of China and South Korea but refused to give ground on emotionally charged disputes over wartime history.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made two things clear during his first week in office -- growth is the key to fiscal reform, and his office will be the center of decision-making.