Japan PM's support sinks ahead of upper house poll
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's public support rate has slumped to its lowest level since he took office last September, two newspaper surveys published on Monday showed, increasing chances that his ruling camp could lose its majority in a July upper house election.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet slid sharply to 37 percent in a poll taken after his decision to extend the mandate of Japanese troops serving in Iraq, a national daily said on Sunday.
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Japanese stocks fell Wednesday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to resign after a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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A hefty majority of Japanese voters   support the country's new prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe, two   media surveys published on Friday showed, but many also have   doubts about his leadership capabilities.
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Japan's upper house of parliament rejected a bill Friday to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces in the Indian Ocean, but the ruling party was expected to push the measure into law in the lower chamber.
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Campaigning began on Thursday for a  Japanese upper house election on July 29 that could cost Prime  Minister Shinzo Abe his job and usher in a period of policy  stagnation if his bloc loses big.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Yasuo Fukuda, named his party lieutenants on Monday as he braced for a showdown with a combative opposition amid calls for early elections after a disastrous year for the ruling coalition.
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Japan's two largest parties failed to agree Tuesday on continuing a naval mission in the Indian Ocean, dealing a setback to the government which has pledged to support the US-led "war on terror".
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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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Former cabinet minister Yasuo Fukuda appears a shoo-in to become Japan's next prime minister after a poll showed on Tuesday that most rank-and-file supporters of the ruling party -- like lawmakers -- backed him for the job.
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A majority of Japanese want their government to get tougher with China and North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dipped, an opinion poll showed.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new cabinet line-up of veteran lawmakers got a lukewarm reception from media and voters on Tuesday, with newspapers warning that the crisis for the unpopular Japanese leader was far from over.
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Japan's ruling party is voting for a new leader to replace PM Junichiro Koizumi, who steps down this month.
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TOKYO: Nearly three-quarters of Japanese polled urged economic sanctions on North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet slipped, a poll said on Tuesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s  support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many  analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday,  just over a month before an upper house election.
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Japan's opposition-controlled upper house on Friday voted down a bill to resume a naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror," a decision doomed to be overriden by the lower house.
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Campaigning is under way in upper house polls seen as a key test for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.