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SHINZO ABE

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2016
Abe to make historic visit — the first by a Japanese leader — to Pearl Harbor this month
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Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2016
Japan's first lady offers critics a household hotline to Abe
With high approval ratings stoking speculation that Shinzo Abe could become Japan's longest-serving prime minister in recent history, he faces the risk of becoming complacent. Enter Akie Abe, his wife of 29 years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2016
Russia unlikely to be flexible on treaty deal, Noda says
Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has expressed concern over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's negotiations with Russia for a postwar peace treaty, saying Moscow is unlikely to be very flexible.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2016
Abe dismisses report that Obama administration opposed Trump meeting
The administration of President Barack Obama conveyed its opposition to Japan over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in mid-November in New York, a diplomatic source said Sunday. On Monday, Abe dismissed the report as false.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 4, 2016
Abe hopes investment in Far East will aid progress on Russia peace talks
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that he hopes for progress in peace treaty talks with Russia but that the decades-old issue cannot be settled in one meeting.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 4, 2016
Trump's stance will help Japan discuss isles but not get them back
Donald Trump's election as the next U.S. president is likely to make it easier for Japan to seek further talks with Russia on a decades-old territorial dispute by allowing it to take advantage of Trump's more favorable stance toward Moscow.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2016
Abe matches Nakasone for fourth place on postwar prime minister longevity list
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe matches the record of 1,806 days in office set by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in the 1980s, the fourth-longest term held by a prime minister in the postwar era.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2016
Japan, Russia to continue peace treaty talks up to Abe-Putin summit
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agree to continue talks on concluding a peace treaty to end World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 3, 2016
What shape will populism take in modern Japan?
Populism isn't new. A wave of it generated democracy in ancient Greece, circa 500 B.C. Its modern form, born in America in the early 19th century, was a revolt against the planter aristocracy that had governed since independence in 1776. Andrew Jackson — said to be the first president born in a...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 3, 2016
Abe, Trump and Modi get on the wrong side of climate change
Oxford Dictionaries proclaimed the word of 2016 to be "post-truth," a scary concept that was popularized by the repulsive presidential campaign waged by Donald Trump. It refers to his chronic dissembling, invention of facts and intermittent grasp of reality heralding a new era where fabulists, revivalists...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2016
Trump's Commerce secretary pick sends letter to Aso in attempt to boost ties
Wilbur Ross, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Commerce secretary, told Finance Minister Taro Aso of his interest in strengthening bilateral economic ties in a letter personally delivered by a representative in Tokyo on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 2, 2016
Abe, Singapore leader Tan agree to push for TPP ratification
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Singaporean President Tony Tan affirmed in Tokyo on Thursday the importance of ratifying and bringing into force the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal to prevent a regression in the progress of free trade.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 2, 2016
Abe, Trump agreed to boost alliance in November talks: envoy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump agreed when they met last month in New York to strengthen the bilateral alliance, Japan's ambassador to the United States said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2016
Kishida leaves for three-day Russia visit to prepare for Abe-Putin summit
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida left Thursday for a three-day visit to Russia to make final preparations for an upcoming summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Japan, the Foreign Ministry said the same day.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 29, 2016
LDP ignores needed reform by focusing on term limits
The Liberal Democratic Party is being very shortsighted by focusing its reform effort so narrowly.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 29, 2016
Lower House passes pension reform bill amid opposition protest
A bill aimed at keeping Japan's pension system sustainable in the face of a graying and shrinking population passed in the House of Representatives Tuesday amid fierce protests from opposition parties.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 28, 2016
Half a million societal drop-outs drag on Abe's economic dreams
Nagisa Hirai was an active child who loved playing soccer with the boys. But that early happiness dissipated on her first day at elementary school when she became frightened after being unable to find her classroom.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 27, 2016
Survey finds Abe Cabinet support rate surges to 60.7%
The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet got a huge boost this month, jumping nearly seven points to 60.7 percent, a monthly nationwide telephone survey shows.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 26, 2016
Trump, Putin and Kim make Abe miserable
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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 25, 2016
Expect closer Japan-U.S. ties
An alignment of long-term economic, political and security interests mean that Japan-U.S. relations will ultimately be driven by strategic considerations rather than personality politics.

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