Japan PM Race Between Aso and Fukuda

The race to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe narrowed to two candidates Saturday as the ruling party said its conservative No. 2 leader and a dovish party stalwart who favors warmer ties with Asia will run.

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Japan's Prime Minister Says He'll Resign

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he will resign, ending a troubled year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.

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Abe Sorry for Minister's A-Bomb Remark

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized Sunday for the first time over his former defense minister's suggestion that the U.S. nuclear attacks on Japan were justified.

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Japan's Opposition Demands Premier Quit

Fresh off a spectacular election win, Japan's opposition on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resign, opposed his support of U.S. foreign policy and promised to gain leadership of the world's second-largest economy.

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Japan to Probe WWII Military Brothels

Under intense pressure from Asia and the United States, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that ruling party lawmakers will conduct a fresh investigation into the Japanese military's forced sexual slavery of women during World War II.

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Japan PM: No More WWII Brothel Apologies

Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday.

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Japan PM: No More WWII Brothel Apologies

Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it to do so, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday.

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Official: Wartime Brothels 'Deplorable'

Japan's operation of military brothels during World War II was "deplorable," but the issue can only be resolved by Tokyo and its Asian neighbors, a top U.S. official said Friday, as victims expressed outrage at the Japanese prime minister's denial that women were forced into sexual slavery.

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Will Smith Meets Japan's Prime Minister

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his countrymen could use a piece of advice from Will Smith's new movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness," the story of a homeless man and his young son who make good.

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Japan PM Vows Assertive Foreign Policy

Japan will pursue assertive foreign policies and strengthen its ties with the U.S. and Europe in response to new security threats in the region, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday.

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Japan Candidates Debate Over Policy

The three candidates seeking to become Japan's next leader began all-out campaigning with a policy debate Saturday, and the hawkish front-runner Shinzo Abe won Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's endorsement.

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PJM Tokyo: Is the new Prime Minister taking the country in bold and different directions than his scandal-ridden predecessor, or is it business as usual in Japan? PJM correspondent Garrett DeOrio fears the latter.

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Shinzo Abe may have stepped down as prime minister of Japan last week, but the country's antiquated economy remains.

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PJM Tokyo: The sudden resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sparked an intense campaign within his party for the country's next leader. Garrett DeOrio fills us in on the last-minute maneuvering and backroom deals as Sunday's election looms.

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After Shinzo Abe's resignation, Japan needs more than just a new prime minister

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PJM Tokyo: The resignation of scandal-plagued, ineffective Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was inevitable, yet managed to take the country by surprise, reports PJM correspondent Garrett DeOrio

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Blair's gone, Abe's gone, Howard's falling - Why not Bush ?

Blair went, John Howard's ratings dropped & now Shinzo Abe has resigned. The reasons are different & diverse in each case but the one common thing due to which these men had to go through tough times in their political careers was supporting the Iraq war.

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Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, today said he would resign to take responsibility for his scandal-ridden party's poor showing in recent elections.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced his resignation on Wednesday after a year in power dogged by scandals, an election rout and a crisis over Japan's support for U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan.

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A small group of anti-whaling protesters have presented Japanese consular officials in Brisbane with a letter to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Much has been made of the massive defeat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party suffered in the recent election to Japan's Upper House.

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Defense Minister Yuriko Koike who recently announced she does not seek to retain her position in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet, returned to Japan on Saturday morning and held a press conference at the Narita International Airport, where she took the opportunity to crtique …

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Defense Minister Yuriko Koike announced Friday she does not seek to keep her post when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet reshuffle is carried out on Monday.

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This Sunday, we Americans will gather once more to pay homage to our foremothers by celebrating the Aug. 26 anniversary of the passage of suffrage. What a year it's been since we last met.

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A JAPANESE nationalist sent part of a severed finger to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for not paying respects at a controversial war shrine.

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A slow motion political evolution that commenced some 15 years ago in Japan is beginning to bear fruit. The long quest to transform the country into a competitive, two-party democracy is closer to realization than some, including longtime Japan watchers, are willing to admit.

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In the upcoming cabinet reshuffle to be announced on the 27th this month, Foreign Minister Taro Aso will take the role of LDP secretary general, sources close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday.

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has faced down calls to resign after voters handed his conservative party a landmark defeat.

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Sunday's Upper House election ended in total catastrophe for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which saw nearly half of its seats swept away. The Democratic Party of Japan, the leading opposition party, is now by far the largest party in the Upper House.

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In an internet survey conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun, 48% of respondents said they would like to see Japan's PM Shinzo Abe to resign, in the case his coalition fails to secure a majority in the July 29 Upper House election.

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Last month Japanese pilots practised dropping live bombs for the first time since the second world war. Japan is also active in Iraq, and assisting operations in Afghanistan.

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Japan is blurring the line between defensive and offensive military power in spite of its pacifist Constitution, rattling nerves in northeast Asia.

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TOKYO: When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office last autumn, he was a popular young leader vowing to end what he called Japan's "postwar regime." But the suicide of the agricultural minister threatens Abe's administration with one of the oldest problems in Japanese politics: mo …

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In a historic step toward the first revision of the country's postwar pacifist constitution, Japan's Diet (parliament) enacted a bill on Monday setting the rules for a national referendum required for any constitutional changes, on the strength of the Liberal Democratic Party …

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For the first time in a long time an international power is backing the U.S.'s involvement in Iraq. Surprise, it's Japan.

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Japan's parliament passed rules today for amending the country's pacifist constitution. The move marked a political victory for nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he pushes to give Japan's military a larger global role.

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