Kishi Nobusuke
(1896–1987), prime minister of Japan. Born in Yamaguchi prefecture in November 1896 to the Sato family, Kishi was the second male in a family of ten children. During his teenage ...
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Nobusuke Kishi (1896-1987) was a Japanese statesman who was imprisoned as a war criminal but released by the Allied Occupation authorities after World War II. His term as prime minister was marked by ...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe named Norihiko Akagi, a former farm
ministry bureaucrat, as new farm minister Friday to replace
Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who committe...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe named Norihiko Akagi, a former farm
ministry bureaucrat, as new farm minister Friday to replace
Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who committed suicide early thi...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
HEROES OF POLITICIANS (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published July 28)
It is interest...
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Abe stops at Kolkata during Asian tour to reminisce grandpa Kishi
KOLKATA, India - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on his way
from New Delhi to Malaysia, stopped at the India...
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Abe stops in Kolkata to reminisce about grandpa Kishi
KOLKATA, India - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stopped in
the Indian city of Kolkata on Thursday on his way from New De...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday met with the son of an Indian judge who sat on the World War II war crimes tribunal that acquitted Abe's grandfather, a visit some in Japan fear coul...
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The Cambodian government said Wednesday that Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe's resignation will not hurt good relations between
Cambodia and Japan.
''The relationship between Cambodia and Japan ...
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(EDS: RECASTING WITH AKAGI'S NEWS CONFERENCE)
Japan's new farm minister, Norihiko Akagi, took office Friday
and vowed Japan will strive to significantly boost agricultural
exports and promot...
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(EDS: ADDING ABE'S COMMENTS IN 6TH GRAF, MORE INFO IN 9TH-11TH GRAFS)
Japan's new farm minister, Norihiko Akagi, took office Friday
and vowed that the nation will strive to boost agricultural...
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Kishi Nobusuke
Nobusuke Kishi
4TH LD: Abe names Akagi as new farm minister
