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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 23, 2016

Abe Cabinet says JCP promoting 'violent revolution,' subject to anti-subversive law

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government says the Japanese Communist Party remains a “violent revolutionary” group.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 10, 2015

Reconstruction minister denies misuse of political funds, underwear theft

Reconstruction minister Tsuyoshi Takagi on Tuesday dismissed any notion he will step down and denied separate allegations that he misused political funds and stole a young woman's underwear.
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JAPAN
Oct 15, 2015

Cabinet minister was questioned over theft of woman's underwear, gossip magazine says

One of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newly appointed ministers has come under scrutiny after a gossip magazine reported Thursday that he was once suspected in the theft of a young woman's underwear.
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JAPAN / Politics / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 9, 2015

Returning economy chief Amari fires TPP warning shot across Clinton's bow

If Hillary Clinton becomes president and tries to renegotiate the hard-earned Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, it would disgrace the dignity of the United States, Japan's chief trade negotiator warned in an interview with The Japan Times and other media outlets Friday.
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2015

New ministerial post raises doubts, overlaps with other agencies

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newly created ministerial post is raising questions from the public and the opposition camp over concerns its roles will overlap with other agencies.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2015

Ministers visit divisive war shrine on 70th anniversary of war end

In a move likely to draw fresh criticism from China and South Korea, three members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine Saturday, the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 2, 2015

Cabinet backs plan for 26% cut to greenhouse gas emissions

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approves a plan to reduce greenhouse gases by 26 percent by 2030, a goal already criticized by environmental groups as too timid and statistically unsound.
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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 18, 2015

Kono urges Abe to erase doubts over war history

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must erase doubts — sparked by his own words and deeds — that he wants to water down accounts of Japan's wartime wrongs, according to a former leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2015

Ireland's Tim Cook moment: Potential future prime minister admits being gay

Ireland's health minister, tipped as a future prime minister, came out as the first openly gay Cabinet member in a Catholic country that until the 1990s banned homosexuality.

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