Japan - Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro KoizumiPrime Minister
(pronounced "koh-ee-ZU-mee")
"In the current severe economic situation, the only path that will lead to revitalizati...
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Tokyo (dpa) - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
elected moderate Yasuo Fukuda to succeed Shinzo Abe as its party
leader Sunday.
Fukuda, 71-year-ol...
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Thirty-nine lawmakers, including two with senior government
posts, of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition
Democratic Party of Japan visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shr...
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao entertained people at a welcome
reception Thursday in Tokyo by saying that his mother praised his
speech at Japan's parliament earlier in the day in which he called...
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Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao enjoyed jogging in a Tokyo
park Thursday and chatted with Japanese citizens in a jovial manner
in a sign to show an improvement of ties between China and J...
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Hitomi Soga, one of the five Japanese abducted by North Korea in
the 1970s who returned to Japan in 2002, was hired Monday to work at
a city-run nursing home in the city of Sado, Niigata Pref...
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Chinese and Japanese history scholars met Tuesday for the first in a series of government-mandated study groups aimed at smoothing over differences between the Asian powers on historical issues.Jap...
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Japan - Junichiro Koizumi
1ST LEAD: Japan's ruling party elects political dove as leader
