Half of Japanese want ruling-camp defeat: poll
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Half of Japanese voters want the ruling coalition to lose elections next month, which could cost beleaguered Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his job, a poll showed Monday.
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The head of a government panel debating revisions to Japan's imperial succession law said Tuesday that public opinion, which strongly supports allowing a woman to reign, would be the most important factor in their discussions.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe falls to its lowest level yet, a new poll shows.
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Yasuo Fukuda, a moderate ruling party veteran, was Saturday seen pulling ahead in the two-way race to become Japan&#39;s next prime minister, reports said.
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The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet edged up slightly on a latest survey, with the unpopular pension reform program advocatedby him remaining
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Japanese prisoners dislike their unstylish pajamas, feel their cells are too small and want better meals, a government survey has found.
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Nearly two-thirds of Japanese support the country's much-criticized whaling program, a poll showed Friday, reflecting growing sentiment in the country that the international anti-whaling campaign is fueled by Western cultural bias.
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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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TOKYO: Nearly three-quarters of Japanese polled urged economic sanctions on North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet slipped, a poll said on Tuesday.
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Japan's democracy may work smoothly, but its politics are still dominated by change-resistant dynasties that limit voter choice
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NEW DELHI  -Nearly half of Indians polled support a landmark nuclear energy deal with the United States and believe the government should not bow to pressure from its leftist allies to scrap the pact, a survey showed.
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Support for Japan's embattled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tumbled to a new low of 25.7 percent in a poll published on Friday, just over two weeks ahead of a crucial upper house election.
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Japan decided on Thursday to keep its  troops in Iraq for another year, Prime Minister Junichiro  Koizumi said, although most voters want them to come home from  the nation's riskiest military mission since World War II.
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More than half the respondents to a poll say Japan&#39;s government should withdraw its troops from Iraq next month when the mandate for their reconstruction and humanitarian mission expires, the daily Mainichi Shimbun says.
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Japan's Yasuo Fukuda looks likely to cruise to victory in a ruling party leadership race on Sunday to become the next prime minister. Then comes the hard part.
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Ruling party stalwarts in the town of Furukawa in northern Japan are fed up with the string of scandals that have cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet five ministers in less than a year, and want the premier to step down.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suffered another plunge in his popularity, a poll showed Tuesday, as the opposition refused to back down in a row over support for US-led troops in Afghanistan.