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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 07:21 AM
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(Kyodo) _ North Korea on Wednesday demanded that Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and other Japanese politicians stop visiting the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, calling it "a center for spreading the idea of militarist overseas aggression."
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 07:20 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Chief Japanese delegate Kenichiro Sasae at six-party nuclear talks in Beijing on Wednesday dismissed a media report that Japan told North Korea that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to make a third visit to Pyongyang. Asked by reporters to verify the report by Russia's Interfax news agency, Sasae said, "There's absolutely no such thing."
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Read full article: 'Japan envoy denies report Koizumi hopes to make 3rd N. Korea visit' (1494 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 07:17 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The start of the planned privatization of postal services will be delayed for up to one year until April 2008 due to the Diet's rejection of related bills last month, which has caused a delay in the development of information systems, postal privatization minister Heizo Takenaka said Tuesday.
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Read full article: 'Japan set to delay start of postal privatization for up to 1 year' (1783 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 07:29 AM
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More than 80 percent of the newly elected Lower House members are in favor of revising the Constitution, a figure double that of nine years ago, according to a Mainichi poll. The Mainichi Newspapers polled all 1,131 candidates in the House of Representatives election and 1,108 of them filed their answers by Aug. 30. They included 473 politicians who were later elected to the Lower House.
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Read full article: 'Most newly elected legislators in favor of revising Japan's Constitution' (1340 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 07:29 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The stunning victory by the Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday's general election may make it possible for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to skip his controversial visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine without worrying about criticism of breaking his promise, a U.S. expert on Japanese politics said Monday.
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Read full article: 'Landslide win gives Koizumi leeway not to visit Yasukuni: expert' (2959 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 07:27 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday he will consider reshuffling the Cabinet and his party's leadership after the end of the special Diet session being arranged to start Sept. 21, with a view to promoting his potential successors to those posts.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi to reshuffle Cabinet after Diet session' (6333 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, September 12, 2005 - 08:01 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Japan's newly elected House of Representatives will feature younger faces and more women occupying its 480 seats than after the 2003 election, with a record number of 43 women, who come from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from homemaker to professor.
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Read full article: 'Japan's lower house gets younger faces, more women' (3200 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, September 12, 2005 - 08:01 AM
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TOKYO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Maverick Japanese Internet CEO Takafumi Horie got almost as much coverage as the prime minister and opposition leader in Japan's election campaign, but it wasn't enough for the political novice to win a seat in parliament.
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Read full article: 'Japan Internet CEO Horie fails to win in election' (1795 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 07:25 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated his firm determination Sunday to continue his controversial annual visit to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine. He said during a series of television appearances ahead of the Sept. 11 general election that he doesn't want there to be any outside intervention in a matter involving his personal desire to pay tribute to the war dead.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi hints at continuing visits to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine' (1378 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 07:24 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi intends to retain all current Cabinet members if the ruling coalition wins the Sept. 11 general election and he is reelected as prime minister, reshuffling the Cabinet only after his postal privatization bills pass the Diet, senior ruling bloc members said Sunday.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi eyes reshuffling Cabinet after postal bills passage' (1531 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 07:23 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi repeated his mantra Saturday that privatizing Japan's postal services is an indispensable reform. In a speech for the Sept. 11 general election, Koizumi said the election will deliver a verdict on whether to privatize the government-backed Japan Post as he insists is necessary.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi reiterates call for postal privatization' (747 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 07:15 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Actor-turned-lawmaker Katsuhiko Yokomitsu left the opposition Social Democratic Party immediately after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the lower house for the Sept. 11 election. To SDP was shocked that Yokomitsu, its former deputy chief, had decided to run in his constituency in Oita Prefecture on the ticket of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan. Yokomitsu, elected four times to parliament since 1993, indicated the SDP's power base is weakening even in Oita, which was once dubbed "a kingdom" for the party, and believed he had no option but to join the DPJ to secure his Diet seat.
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Read full article: 'SDP facing life-or-death struggle in general election' (4929 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 07:14 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Privatizing the Japanese postal system is just the tip of the iceberg of reforms that are necessary for Japan's future, Haruo Shimada, special adviser to the Japanese Cabinet Office, said Wednesday. Speaking at the Forbes Global CEO conference in Sydney, Shimada called the postal system "the cancer of Japan," saying it is a "communist kind of segment in the huge financial market."
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Read full article: 'Japan Post is 'cancer,' Koizumi adviser tells world business leaders' (2005 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 07:21 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Following is a list of major political parties' main pledges for the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, based on manifestos released by the parties and written answers to Kyodo News questionnaires on their election pledges.
(Ruling parties)
The Liberal Democratic Party pledges:
(Post-election plans)
-- to maintain the coalition government with the New Komeito party.
-- to continue promoting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform drives.
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Read full article: 'Major parties' main election pledges' (12323 bytes more)
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