Abe gets nod to become Japan's prime minister
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Outspoken conservative Shinzo Abe easily won his party's support to replace veteran Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and was set to embark on an agenda that includes rewriting the pacifist constitution.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party was poised on Sunday  to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian  neighbours, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an  effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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Shinzo Abe, an advocate of tighter ties   with Washington and a bigger say for Japan in world affairs,   was elected Japan's prime minister by parliament on Tuesday,   becoming at 52 the youngest Japanese leader since World War   Two.
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Japan's governing party elects Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe as next leader, and possibly prime minister.
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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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A hefty majority of Japanese voters   support the country's new prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe, two   media surveys published on Friday showed, but many also have   doubts about his leadership capabilities.
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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 line-up in his administration.
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Japan's Yasuo Fukuda was elected prime minister on Tuesday, setting the stage for the seasoned moderate to form a cabinet that must confront a feisty opposition keen to force an election.
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Japan's ruling party elects Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe as next leader, and likely prime minister.
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Shinzo Abe, a conservative advocate of a   more muscular Japanese foreign policy, was overwhelmingly   elected as ruling party leader on Wednesday, setting the stage   for his election as prime minister next week.
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Japan's parliament elects Shinzo Abe as the country's new prime minister, replacing Junichiro Koizumi.
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Nationalist Shinzo Abe, 52, was elected Japan's prime minister Tuesday, making him the youngest leader since World War Two of the world's second largest economy.
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Japan's Shinzo Abe, who appears virtually   certain to become the nation's next prime minister, is   supported by a majority of ordinary Japanese in a campaign   where image is trumping policy, opinion polls show.
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TOKYO, Sept. 7 -- For the election-battered, scandal-plagued and competence-challenged government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it has come down to this: If he cannot keep a floating gas station open in the Indian Ocean, Abe may be finished as the leader of Japan.
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Yasuo Fukuda, a seasoned moderate lawmaker, was chosen Japan's prime minister on Tuesday, then tapped veteran ministers from his predecessor's cabinet to confront a resurgent opposition keen to force an election.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner in the race to be Japan's next leader, is due to announce his bid for the job.
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Parliament elected Yasuo Fukuda to be Japan's prime minister Tuesday, thrusting the moderate political insider into the job of taking on a resurgent opposition and rebuilding the scandal-scarred ruling party.