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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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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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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Former Japanese Prime Minister and veteran lawmaker Kiichi Miyazawa dies at the age of 87.
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About 80 people in Japan fall ill after eating imported dumplings containing insecticide
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An executive allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the suicide of Japan's agriculture minister leaped to his death Tuesday, officials said. The deaths have added to the pressure on a government struggling against a series of scandals.
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Japan's Crown Princess Masako said she was recovering slowly from a stress-related illness most attribute to pressure to produce a male heir, but she was still unable to resume official duties after a year in seclusion.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's year in office has been a disaster for the ruling party: Scandals sapped voter faith in the government and the opposition won elections for the parliament's upper house, while unattended economic and social problems festered.
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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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The creator of a hugely  popular Japanese children's animated show has fallen to her  death after claiming she was no good at her job.
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The wife of Taiwan's embattled president Chen Shui-bian has collapsed and was taken to hospital for checks just after the start of her high-profile trial on corruption and forgery charges.
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At least eight Japanese were sickened, including a child who remains in a coma, after eating Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with an insecticide, police and health officials said Wednesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek hospital treatment, a day after he announced he'd step down.
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Iraq's President Jalal Talabani has fallen ill and was flown to neighboring Jordan for treatment, a statement from his office said Sunday.
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A probe is under way after dozens of Japanese people report falling ill from eating Chinese-made dumplings.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned abruptly yesterday after a year in power, has for weeks been a walking political corpse.
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Japan&#39;s Imperial Household Agency officially announced today that a Tokyo city bureaucrat is engaged to wed Princess Sayako. The 35-year-old princess is the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.