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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 07:14 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for focusing only on postal privatization and urged the public to look at other key concerns, including pension and tax reform, at the start of the official campaign for the Sept. 11 general election.
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 07:02 AM
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(Kyodo) _ More than 80 percent of corporate executives surveyed by the Japan Business Federation support the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the top business lobby said Monday. The survey of 401 executives and managers found 81 percent of them supporting the Koizumi administration, up 15 percentage points from the previous survey in May for the second highest rate after 86 percent in July 2001, said the federation, also known as Nippon Keidanren. The rate of disapproval fell 10 points to 17 percent.
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Read full article: 'Over 80% of executives support Koizumi: Nippon Keidanren' (742 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 07:02 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated Monday he will step down if his ruling coalition fails to win a majority in the upcoming general election, while opposition leader Katsuya Okada said he will seek to take power in the event. Koizumi and Okada, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, made the remarks in a debate hosted by the Japan National Club ahead of the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election. The leaders of four smaller parties also took part in the forum. Koizumi said he will resign if the coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito party fails to reach the 241-seat majority "even by one seat."
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Read full article: 'Koizumi to resign, Okada to seek power if coalition lacks majority' (100 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 07:10 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe said Sunday that the consumption tax will have to be raised from the current 5 percent in fiscal 2007 as part of efforts to finance future social security costs. Asked by a moderator on a Fuji TV program whether the ruling party's election manifesto means the consumption tax will be hiked in the year that starts in April 2007, Takebe said, "Yes." The LDP now has to consider the margin of increase, he said. Takebe is the first senior LDP official to spell out the need to raise the consumption tax in fiscal 2007.
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Read full article: 'Consumption tax needs to be raised in FY 2007: LDP's Takebe' (1408 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 07:10 AM
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(Kyodo) _ In a country that has the smallest number of female lower house members among developed nations, there has been debate about whether Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's tactic of fielding numerous career women in the Sept. 11 general election should be regarded as a welcome step, no matter how opportunistic it may seem.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi's tactics belittling women or giving golden opportunity?' (6542 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 10:43 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday the Japanese government has no legal responsibility toward the so-called "comfort women" who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. "Our position is different from the South Korean government," Koizumi told reporters at the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which he heads.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi says Japan has no legal responsibility over 'comfort women'' (2438 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 07:23 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, Katsuya Okada, said Thursday that holding talks with U.S. President George W. Bush and improving Japan's strained diplomatic ties with Asian neighbors will be among the first steps he will take if his party beats the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the upcoming election and forms the next government.
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Read full article: 'DPJ's Okada eyes talks with Bush, better ties with Asian neighbors' (4591 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 07:16 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The Japan Business Federation will support Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party in the Sept. 11 general election, officials of Japan's most powerful business lobby said Wednesday. Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the federation better known as Nippon Keidanren, will declare its support at a press conference or in a statement next Tuesday, the day of the official announcement of the House of Representatives election, they said.
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Read full article: 'Nippon Keidanren to support LDP in Sept. 11 election' (1895 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 07:14 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe said Wednesday party members who voted against the postal privatization bills last month will probably be expelled from the party if they run in the Sept. 11 general election without leaving the party. "The rebels will be naturally subject to measures by the party's disciplinary committee," Takebe said on a radio show. "If the rebels damage LDP-endorsed candidates by running in the election while maintaining LDP membership, that will violate LDP rules," he said, adding they would be likely expelled from the party after the election.
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Read full article: 'Postal rebels to be expelled from LDP if they stay in party: Takebe' (965 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 07:12 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe suggested Tuesday that rebel party members who voted against the postal privatization bills last month may be able to rejoin the party after the Sept. 11 general election if they voluntarily leave the party beforehand.
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Read full article: 'LDP may allow postal dissidents to rejoin party after election' (2238 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 07:18 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated Monday he hopes the rebel party members who voted against his postal privatization bills last month will leave the party voluntarily before running in the upcoming general election as independents. The dissidents' membership has become an issue as several prefectural associations of Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party plan to defy the headquarters' decision not to back them in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election on the grounds that they are still party colleagues. "I want them to live up to their good judgment," Koizumi told reporters at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, referring to the recent call by his LDP deputies on the dissidents to leave the party voluntarily.
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Read full article: 'Koizumi wants postal dissidents to leave LDP voluntarily' (2524 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 07:18 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Most of the would-be candidates running in the Sept. 11 general election say social welfare reform should be the top policy priority after the election, according to a Kyodo News survey released Monday. The survey shows that 87.5 percent of the would-be candidates say top priority should be placed on social welfare reform, including the pension and medical systems.
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Read full article: 'Social welfare top priority of most candidates in Sept. 11 election' (2866 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 07:16 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Four lawmakers who broke ranks with the Liberal Democratic Party and voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatization bills, and the outspoken governor of Nagano Prefecture joined hands Sunday to launch a new political party, named Nippon. Yasuo Tanaka, a popular novelist-turned-governor, heads the five-member party -- the second party launched by LDP rebels after Koizumi dissolved the House of Representatives on Aug. 8 -- while continuing to run the prefectural government and not seeking a seat in the Diet, Tanaka said in a press conference. The other four comprise three former lower house members -- Koki Kobayashi, Makoto Taki and Takashi Aoyama -- and Hiroyuki Arai, a member of the House of Councillors.
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Read full article: 'Another new party launched by 4 LDP rebels, Nagano governor' (3487 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 07:15 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said Saturday he will not run in the Sept. 11 general election and will retire from politics due to poor health. "My health is not good and I can no longer work as a politician. Thank you so much for having supported me," Hashimoto, 68, told his supporters in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. Hashimoto did not give details of his health condition.
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Read full article: 'Ex-premier Hashimoto announces retirement from politics' (1583 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 07:04 AM
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Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie said Friday he will run in the upcoming general election in the Hiroshima No. 6 constituency as an independent. The Internet entrepreneur unveiled the plan at a news conference after meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, at the LDP headquarters.
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Read full article: 'Horie says he will run for general election in Hiroshima Pref.' (486 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 07:02 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The Japanese government is likely to seek a reduction in the size of U.S. military in Japan even if it has to pay the expenses involved, a senior governing Liberal Democratic Party member told a visiting U.S. Defense Department official on Thursday. LDP General Council Chairman Fumio Kyuma made the remarks in talks with U.S. Deputy Defense Undersecretary for Asia and Pacific Affairs Richard Lawless at the party headquarters in Tokyo in light of the ongoing bilateral negotiations for realigning the U.S. military presence in Japan, participants in the meeting said.
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Read full article: 'Japan may opt for cut in U.S. military even at its cost: LDP's Kyuma' (1082 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 07:16 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie said Thursday it remains undecided whether he will run in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives general election. "It's still up in the air. I will make an announcement once it's decided," he told reporters in Tokyo. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been sounding out a wide array of personalities to run in the election, which Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called Aug. 8 by dissolving the lower chamber, and Horie earlier said he may run at the request of the LDP. Horie said Thursday he is not yet scheduled to meet Koizumi.
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Read full article: 'Horie says decision to run in election 'still up in the air'' (631 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 07:16 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party is asking all those running as LDP candidates in the Sept. 11 general election to sign a pledge that they will support postal privatization, according to a copy of the written pledge Kyodo News obtained Wednesday. The move is believed aimed at preventing a repeat of what happened in the previous Diet session when the House of Councillors voted down a set of government-proposed postal reform bills due to LDP dissenters, as the governing coalition plans to resubmit the bills to parliament after the upcoming election.
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Read full article: 'LDP asks its candidates to sign pledge to support postal reforms' (1092 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 07:16 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie said Tuesday he is considering running on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ticket as a candidate in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election. "There is a possibility" of running in the election if he could have a significant influence and get "a sense of being able to change Japan" by becoming a lower house member, the 32-year-old Internet entrepreneur told reporters, acknowledging that he and a senior LDP member held a meeting Monday.
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Read full article: 'Livedoor's Horie may run in election on LDP ticket' (1729 bytes more)
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Posted by: BillyBobJoe on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 07:15 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The New Komeito party, the ruling coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced Tuesday its platform for the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, pledging to expand child-care allowance to deal with the nation's falling birthrate. In the platform which highlights "reforms from the viewpoint of ordinary people," the party calls for extending the eligible age limit to receive child-care allowance from that of a third grader to that of a sixth grader, with an eye on further extending the limit to that of a ninth grader in the future.
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Read full article: 'New Komeito calls for expansion of child-care allowance in platform' (755 bytes more)
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