Japan PM on media offensive as voter support dives
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched a media offensive to win back foundering voter support, which has slid below the key 30 percent level ahead of an upper house election this month.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda apologized on Monday for his ruling party's handling of a public pensions crisis, after seeing his support ratings tumble in polls.
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Campaigning is under way in upper house polls seen as a key test for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Shinzo Abe, deeply unpopular, had already been written off by Japanâs political establishment and news media.
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe rebukes a minister over WWII atom bomb comments, as his poll ratings drop further.
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Japan's prime minister called on North Korea Monday to quickly resume negotiations on ending its nuclear weapons program, as support grew for Japan to take a tougher line against the communist country.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister  Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet slid sharply to 37 percent in  a poll taken after his decision to extend the mandate of  Japanese troops serving in Iraq, a national daily said on  Sunday.
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Japanese opposition leaders and consumer groups this week criticized a tentative agreement to lift a ban on US beef imports, calling it a political gift from Prime Minister
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to become Japan's new prime minister, called Friday for his country to build a stronger military as a deterrent and to push ahead with economic reforms as candidates launched their campaigns to lead the governing party.
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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 ability.
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Will Japanese PM stir controversy with his New Year's day visit to a shrine honoring war criminals?
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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat, has told ruling party leaders he intends to resign, an official said Wednesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;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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Allegations that a Japanese public television network was pressured by politicians to soft-pedal a program on Japan's legacy of sexual enslavement during World War II has pitted liberal Japanese media against their conservative counterparts.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda defends Japan's annual whale hunt, calling for a less emotional debate.
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TOKYO: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on Monday to have won public backing for his refusal to pull Japanese troops out of Iraq despite the weekend beheading of a Japanese hostage.
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Campaigning began on Thursday for a Japanese upper house election on July 29 that could cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job and usher in a period of policy stagnation if his ruling bloc loses big.