Photo: Abe & Fukuda
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
An unflattering photo of former Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda listening to the speech Taro Aso gave today:
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Outgoing Prime Minister Fukuda's cabinet resigns
People Daily (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and his Cabinet resigned Wednesday. The cabinet was launched on Aug. 2 following Fukuda's reshuffle of the cabinet he mostly inherited from his predecessor Shinzo Abe the previous day, retaining only 4 of a total of 17 cabinet members. The abrupt and broad change was widely seen as aimed at saving the approval rating which had been lingering at dangerous...
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Taro Aso elected president of Japan's ruling LDP
People Daily (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Taro Aso, current secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was elected LDP's party chief in its presidential election Monday. Aso, who served as the foreign minister in Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet as well as in the subsequent Shinzo Abe's cabinet, won 351,or 66.6 percent of a total of 527 votes. According to the LDP election rule, the candidate who secures the absolute majority...
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Aso poised to win ruling LDP presidential election
People Daily (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Taro Aso, secretary general of the ruling Liberal democratic Party (LDP), is almost certain to win the LDP presidential election scheduled to be held later Monday. Aso, who served as the foreign minister in Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet as well as in the subsequent Shinzo Abe's cabinet, has maintained a convenient lead during the election campaigns, gaining the support of some 60 percent of LDP lawmakers...
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Agriculture Ministers: Gotta collect ‘em all!
Japundit (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
And so we say farewell to yet another Minister of Agriculture. It’s often said there’s a revolving door at the Min of Ag., and it’s really been on a spin recently. The Shinzo Abe administration saw 3 Ministers. You wouldn’t have thought there was time, but surely there was. Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who committed [...]
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Japanese politics: Another grey man bites the dust
The Economist (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Yasuo Fukuda’s departure may just herald the political crisis Japan so badly needs BRUISED, bothered and bewildered, a Japanese prime minister for the second time in a year has thrown in the towel after a few ineffectual months in the ring. Yasuo Fukuda, like his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, had seen his popularity ratings slump, as his party rivals sharpened their knives and his policies fizzled. Meanwhile,...
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Need for mandate
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Japan and the rest of the world have seen two Japanese prime ministers in a row suddenly throw in the towel without giving convincing reasons for doing so. Mr. Shinzo Abe announced his resignation Sept. 12, 2007, and Mr. Yasuo Fukuda on Sept. 1. The manner in which the two prime ministers decided to step down after less than a year in power was most unusual and irresponsible. It is unavoidable for...
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Premier case of deja vu
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation in a news conference hastily called Monday night. It was like a replay of the resignation of his predecessor Mr. Shinzo Abe almost a year ago. Both Mr. Abe and Mr. Fukuda surrendered their Cabinet less than one year after they came to power. In his announcement, Mr. Abe said his failure to get Democratic Party of Japan leader Mr. Ichiro Ozawa to...
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Japan's Wimp Factor
MSNBC.com: Newsweek Politics (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
It's the sort of thing that almost makes you long for the days of the samurai. Those guys had swords, and strong beliefs, and, well, cojones. Certainly not like modern-day Japanese prime ministers. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quit last year after less than a year on the job. And now his predecessor, Yasuo Fukuda, announced his resignation last night here in Tokyo, also after a little less than a year....
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Japan’s Fukuda quits, leaving wreckage behind
Westhawk (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Today, Japan’s prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, abruptly resigned his office . His failed one year in office matched the lamentable record and duration of his immediate predecessor, Shinzo Abe. The seeming meltdown of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is both stunning and unsurprising. It is stunning in the sense that both Mr. Fukuda and Mr. Abe, veteran politicians both, had been preparing all of their...
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Fukuda gives up the unequal struggle
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Less than a year after Shinzo Abe, the aristocratic nationalist prime minister, quit on the grounds of ill health, Yasuo Fukuda has become the second premier in year to commit political suicide
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Abe edging back into fight
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to be trying to move back into the political limelight, even though his close associates think it's too early. As deputy chief Cabinet secretary under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Abe gained fame as a leader of the campaign to resolve the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea during the 1970s and '80s, and have any survivors returned. Read the...
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Remember what militarism did
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Two years ago, Japan marked the anniversary of the end of World War II under politically noisy circumstances as Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, in his official capacity as prime minister, visited Yasukuni Shrine, Japan's war shrine. Last year, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refrained from visiting the shrine. But while he was in power, some politicians, in response to North Korea's nuclear ambitions, called...
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Weekly numerology-August 12
Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Shinzo Abe (Japan) - Bertie Ahern - Victoria Beckham - Mary J. Blige - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - Ewart Brown (Bermuda) - Fidel Castro - Michael Chertoff - Roger Clemens - John Conyers - Jim Cramer - Alistair Darling - Tom Daschle - Taye …... Continue reading »
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JAPAN: Fukuda to reorganise government
France 24 (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda will reshuffle his cabinet Friday, largely in response to his low 25% approval rating. His cabinet has remained largely unchanged from that of his predecessor, Shinzo Abe.
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