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SHINZO ABE

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 7, 2016
Abe arranging for Mugabe, 92, to visit Japan for late-March summit ahead of Kenya TICAD
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is arranging a visit to Japan by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in late March for summit talks, government sources said Sunday.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2016
Japan's major business lobby to urge workers to take more holidays
Japan's most influential business lobby pledged Friday to urge its member firms to have employees take more holidays in a bid to boost the tourism industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 4, 2016
Abe tells opposition leader's beauty queen daughter to run for LDP
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told the 20-year-old daughter of an opposition party leader to run for the LDP during a meeting Friday to celebrate her win in a beauty pageant.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2016
U.N. sanctions against North toughest yet, but critics say still not enough
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved the toughest sanctions against North Korea in two decades following its nuclear test and missile launch.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2016
Abe setting up panel to debate extra budget before G-7 summit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will convene an advisory panel to consider an extra budget for the coming fiscal year, sources said days after the Group of 20 nations urged more fiscal spending to support the ailing global economy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 1, 2016
Lower House approves record ¥96.7 trillion budget
The Lower House passes a record budget, marking a turning point in Diet deliberations in which the ruling and opposition camps will switch attention to the Upper House election.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 1, 2016
Abe cites need for Japan to fully exercise right to collective self-defense
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggests that the Constitution should be amended to give Japan the power to fully exercise the right to collective self-defense.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 1, 2016
Japan plans to stipulate 80% emission cut goal by 2050
The Abe administration will stipulate a long-term goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from current levels in Japan's next climate change plan, according to a government source.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 29, 2016
Japan to provide Egypt with ¥2 trillion business project, take in 2,500 students
Japan has pledged to continue supporting Egypt’s democratic process five years after revolution swept the country and ousted Hosni Mubarak.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2016
DPJ, Ishin seal merger, will create new opposition party in March
The Democratic Party of Japan and Ishin no To formally agree to form a new opposition party to take on the conservative Liberal Democratic Party this summer.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 25, 2016
Abe hopes advent of direct flights will boost Japan-Cambodia ties
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed hope Thursday that the launch of regular direct flights between Japan and Cambodia in September will promote commerce and ties between the countries.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 25, 2016
Supreme Court, Abe battle over judicial independence
The Supreme Court is locked in a war with the Abe administration over the independence of the judicial branch.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 24, 2016
Abe snubs Obama over Russia visit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has snubbed an appeal by U.S. President Barack Obama, who asked that he not visit Russia in May, sources close to Japan-Russia relations said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 24, 2016
Amnesty slams Japan's contentious secrecy law, low acceptance of refugees
The watchdog's report for 2015 says Japan has displayed an “intolerance of public criticism” with the introduction of a contentious new secrecy law.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 20, 2016
Abe not weighing snap poll
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday that he is not considering a snap general election this summer to coincide with a scheduled Upper House poll, and that he has no intention of delaying a planned increase in the nation's consumption tax.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 19, 2016
Abe eschews further delays, vows to cut 10 Lower House seats in line with census
The prime minister pledges to slash 10 seats in the Diet's House of Representatives sooner than his LDP party has proposed.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 17, 2016
Polls show Abe is riding out storm of bad news
The opposition camp is failing to gain any traction with the public by lashing out at Abenomics or the scandals that have beset the Abe administration.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 17, 2016
Japan arranging visit by Ukraine's Poroshenko
The government is trying to schedule a visit by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko before Japan hosts the Group of Seven summit in late May.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2016
Man who landed drone on roof of Japanese prime minister's office gets suspended sentence
The Tokyo District Court handed down a suspended sentence Tuesday to the man who landed a drone on the rooftop of the Prime Minister's Office last April.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2016
Hedge fund says Abenomics-fueled era of easy gains is over
Stats Investment Management Co., whose hedge fund posted a positive return in each of the past 10 years, said the era of easy gains in the Japanese stock market fueled by Abenomics is over.

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