Japan voters wary of ruling parties before election
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Nearly half of Japanese voters want the ruling coalition to lose its upper house majority in July elections, a Kyodo news agency poll showed on Sunday.
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Faced with a new hostage-taking in Iraq, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appears determined not to break the coalition a week before the US election in which he openly supports George W. Bush, analysts said.
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Japan's ruling party is likely to see big losses in the Upper House elections on Sunday.
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Japanese stocks will probably move little  on Monday as soaring oil prices and caution ahead of the U.S.  presidential election next month and its possible impact on  financial markets make investors nervous about trading  actively.
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Yasuo Fukuda looks likely to win the leadership of Japan's ruling party on Sunday and become the nation's next prime minister, a job in which he will face a divided parliament and conflicting policy pressures.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is girding for a showdown in parliament over naval back-up for U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan, but voters say they would rather he focused on pensions and healthcare.
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TOKYO: Nearly three-quarters of Japanese polled urged economic sanctions on North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet slipped, a poll said on Tuesday.
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Voters in Taiwan went to the polls Saturday to choose a new parliament, with analysts predicting a win for the opposition nationalists over the party of independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian.
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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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For Koreans living in Japan, support for Pyongyang used to be a matter of ethnic pride, but today, most turn away from Kim Jong Il
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Japan's ruling party considers proposing constitutional changes to let women take the throne, reports say.
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Voters in Taiwan were set to decide Saturday whether the ruling party and its pro-independence allies will win a majority in the legislature for the first time in Taiwan&#39;s history -- a change that could bring the island closer to a
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Japan&#39;s ruling coalition is on course for defeat in critical elections this month, which could cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job, a survey said Wednesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday, just over a month before an upper house election.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Yasuo Fukuda, named his party lieutenants on Monday as he braced for a showdown with a combative opposition amid calls for early elections after a disastrous year for the ruling coalition.
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Hong Kong's democrats fell short  Monday of expectations in legislative elections after voters  wary of alienating China's communist rulers chose the stability  offered by the Beijing camp.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's likely next premier, is one of his country's most popular politicians. His problem is that the one before him, Junichiro Koizumi, is even more popular.