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By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Japan's foreign minister suddenly quit for having accepted a political donation from a foreigner -- a violation of Japanese law -- dealing another blow to the embattled administration of Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Seiji Maehara, 48, was foreign minister for just six months until Sunday, and was viewed as a leading candidate to succeed Kan. The government said Monday that Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano will temporarily double as foreign minister. Maehara acknowledged receiving a total of 250,000 yen ($3,000) over the past several years from a 72-year-old Korean woman who has ...
Japan's PM Out of the Frying Pan, but Fire Awaits
By Jonathan Adams - AOL NewsTAIPEI, Taiwan (Sept. 14) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan today survived a leadership challenge in a party vote. The embattled leader's win could help stabilize his center-left ruling party as it struggles to guide Japan out of its long-running economic doldrums, at a time when the yen is at a 15-year high and debt is running at about 200 percent of gross domestic product. But analysts cautioned that Kan now faces a tough battle in pushing his policies through a bitterly divided parliament. Kyodo News / AP Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, center, bows to other Democratic Party of ...
Japanese Politician Slams 'Simple-Minded' Americans
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- A senior politician who is challenging Japan's prime minister for leadership of the country has slammed Americans as "simple-minded," and confessed that he doesn't like Brits much, either. Ichiro Ozawa, 68 -- known as the "Shadow Shogun" for his backroom dealing -- today announced that he would stand against Prime Minister Naoto Kan during next month's election for the leadership of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. If Ozawa wins the post, which he lost last year after a funding scandal, he will take over as prime minister. Tokyo Shimbun / AP Ichiro Ozawa, a senior lawmaker ...
Japanese PM's Popularity Sags Ahead of Vote
By Jonathan Adams - AOL News(July 9) -- Japan's ruling party enters elections this weekend amid falling approval ratings for its new flag-bearer, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and concerns over his handling of the economy. Sunday's vote concerns only the upper house of Japan's parliament, so the government, which controls the lower house, will stay in power regardless of the outcome. But a weak showing from Kan's center-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) could slow down the government's policy agenda and leave Japan without strong leadership as it fights to get out of the economic doldrums. Kan, a former finance ...
It's 'Sayonara' for Japan's 'Alien' Prime Minister
By Jonathan Adams - AOL News(June 2) -- One was known as the "alien," the other as the "shadow shogun" who wielded real power from behind the scenes. The abrupt resignations today of the first, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and the second -- ruling Democratic Party of Japan secretary-general Ichiro Ozawa -- has abruptly shifted the political landscape in the world's second largest economy. Analysts say the exit of the two men -- both dogged by political funding scandals -- would boost the Democratic Party of Japan's image ahead of elections expected July 11. And it could revitalize the party's push for ...
Top Japanese Pol Calls Christianity 'Self-Righteous'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThis could be interesting. Barack Obama, who has said his Christian faith is integral to his private life and public persona, arrives Friday in Japan on the initial leg of his first trip to Asia as president -- just as a top politician there has called Christianity "exclusive and self-righteous." "Islam is better, but it is also exclusive," Ichiro Ozawa, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party, told Japanese media after meeting the head of the Japan Buddhist Federation on Tuesday.Christianity "is an exclusive and self-righteous religion. And society in the United States and Europe, ...
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