Nukaga to be Japan finance minister: media
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Former Japanese defense minister  Fukushiro Nukaga will become finance minister in Prime Minister  Shinzo Abe&#39;s reshuffled cabinet, public broadcaster NHK  reported on Monday.
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TOKYO: Japan&#39;s Cabinet yesterday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen ($788.7 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an ageing population and to pay interest on government debt.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet authorized a national spending plan for next fiscal year to cut the budget deficit by 6 percent to curb expansion of the world&#39;s largest public debt.
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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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Japan's new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, apologized on Friday but denied wrongdoing after a newspaper reported that his office had altered the names of political support groups on receipts for donations, Kyodo news agency said.
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Japanese Princess Sayako would be married next spring with a Tokyo metropolitan government employee, Japanese media reported Sunday.
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Japan&#39;s government on Sunday said it is now certain that a 24-year-old Japanese backpacker taken hostage in Iraq has been killed.
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Japan's prime minister came to office last September with plenty in his favor &#151; political pedigree, the blessing of a popular and powerful predecessor, and name recognition as a fighter for Japanese kidnapped by North Korea.
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Japan's parliament will convene on Sept. 26 to pick a new prime minister, Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet has approved an 82.18 trillion yen (US$793 billion; euro587 billion) draft national budget for fiscal 2005, boosting overall spending to support its rapidly aging population and pay interest on the government&#39;s massive
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Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said on Tuesday he would resign over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of two Japanese cities, dealing another blow to the ruling camp ahead of an election this month.
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The Japanese media reported Friday that the Japanese government believes the North Korean military buildup at missile bases is part of a military drill and that the Japanese plan to ask the North to explain its actions.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan  - Shinzo Abe formally entered   the race on Friday to be Japan's next prime minister, saying   his country must forge a stronger role on the world stage and   better ties with Asia.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen (US$788.7 billion; euro594.62 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an aging population but trimming general and defense outlays.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost the country's role in global   affairs and revive respect for traditional values at home.
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Japan's prime minister-in-waiting Shinzo  Abe on Monday chose party heavyweight Hidenao Nakagawa as  secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the  party's No. 2 post and its de facto campaign manager as the LDP  prepares for a critical upper house election next summer,  public broadcaster NHK reported.
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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is set to reshuffle his cabinet on Monday in order to gain the leverage to silence critics within his ruling party of his unpopular reform plan.