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...The resignation marks a rare “#MeToo” case in Japan and has been a damaging blow to the administration of prime minister Shinzo Abe, already wrestling with scandals over nepotism and falsification of documents...
...The resignation marks a rare “#MeToo” case in Japan and has dealt another blow to the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which is already wrestling with scandals over nepotism and falsification...
...A recent “find” is Yohei Fukuda, a remarkable Japanese shoemaker in Tokyo who trained in Northampton with some of the world’s finest cordwainers....
...The assessment marks the start of a global effort by the organisation to address drug resistance, which is causing growing alarm among public health officials worldwide....
...Since Japan’s land and stock bubbles burst in 1990, only two prime ministers have made it to the two-year mark....
...Victory for the DPJ of Yukio Hatoyama would mark a historic turning point for a nation that is east Asia’s most influential democracy, the world’s second largest economy and a vital US ally....
...Mr Fukuda’s departure prompts three big questions: who will head the LDP next? Does his resignation mark the death throes of the long-serving ruling party?...
...Prices on these bonds – which are linked to Japan’s consumer price index – have fallen sharply and many investors have had to mark those losses to market....
...Hanging on to the job for longer than a few months will be the real test of Mr Aso’s political mettle – and one that he faces more quickly than even his short-lived predecessors, Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda...
...Mr Aso’s succession to Yasuo Fukuda, his lacklustre predecessor, was originally intended to pave the way for a quick election that would capitalise on “honeymoon period” popularity....
...In a press conference to mark the end of the extraordinary parliamentary session, Mr Fukuda appealed to the opposition to co-operate in order to make the country governable....
...Chief among them was a pledge to increase aid to poor countries by $50bn by 2010, but Oxfam foresees actual aid falling $30bn short of that mark....
...The dropping of the explicit target marks a further stage in the G8’s failure to honour the commitments they made in Scotland at Gleneagles....
...Mr Fukuda has pleased Beijing by pledging not to visit Yasukuni....
...But Mr Fukuda said he wanted China to be more transparent about its military buildup. He also urged Beijing to talk to Tibetan leaders....
...Takehiro Tsuda, an analyst at Nikko Citigroup in Tokyo, says: “We consider the risks for a non-bank with an NPL ratio that has broken through the 20 per cent mark to be significant.”...
...“We are entering a danger zone,” he wrote in a letter to Yasuo Fukuda, primer minister of Japan and chair of the G8 summit....
...Mr Wen suggested the two countries should promote youth exchanges next year to mark the 30th anniversary of the event....
...Should Mr Fukuda survive in office long enough to stamp his mark on national diplomacy, changes of tone – if not of outright policy – can be expected in three broad areas....
...Under those circumstances, he said it was unlikely that Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s prime minister, would find it useful or necessary to talk to Mr Rudd....
...Yet talk of a return to fiscal laxity or a winding back of the clock are off the mark. The finance ministry will, if anything, gain traction to push its message of fiscal constraint....
...But some observers are sanguine that the third quarter will mark a turning-point....
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