Japan's Empress Michiko falls ill
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Empress Michiko, wife of Japan's Emperor Akihito, is ill with symptoms of internal bleeding, Kyodo reports.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced his resignation on Wednesday after a year in power dogged by scandals, an election rout and a crisis over Japan's support for U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan.
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Japan&#39;s outgoing prime minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized with exhaustion Thursday as his finance minister kick-started the race to succeed him by declaring his candidacy for the top job.
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Tokyo: Japan on Thursday ended a year of disasters on a happy note with the royal family announcing that the emperor&#39;s only daughter Princess Sayako will marry, a piece of good news delayed twice by tragedy.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned abruptly on Wednesday after a year in power, has for weeks been a walking political corpse.
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Raising kids, cooking meals and chatting  to ordinary people -- Empress Michiko&#39;s sweeping changes to  Japan&#39;s ultra-conservative imperial family has made her an  endearing figure to the masses.
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Japanese Emperor Akihito has expressed pain that his eldest son had complained publicly about the stress suffered by the crown princess, who is under pressure to produce a male heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, May 28 Kyodo - [Farm Minister] Matsuoka dies at hospital after attempting suicide  (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring Newsfile. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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TOKYO - Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, an official of the Tokyo metropolitan government, well-placed sources said Sunday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation at a Wednesday news conference.
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EMPEROR Akihito has joined the controversy surrounding his daughter-in-law Masako&#39;s depressive illness by describing criticism of the Japanese imperial family as painful and untrue.
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South Korean officials say they have been unable to confirm news reports that the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died after a long illness.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister and veteran lawmaker Kiichi Miyazawa dies at the age of 87.
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A scandal-tainted Cabinet member who headed Japan's powerful agriculture ministry hanged himself just hours before he faced questioning Monday over alleged bookkeeping fraud.
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Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, on Saturday postponed the announcement of her engagement due to the death of her great-aunt, an official said.
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Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects Sunday to Princess Kikuko, the emperor&#39;s aunt who was seen as one of the most progressive members of Japan&#39;s tradition-bound royal family.
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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized for gastrointestinal inflammation caused by exhaustion and stress Thursday. His hospitalization comes a day after announcing his resignation following a sound electoral beating and the resignations of several government ministers.