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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized for gastrointestinal inflammation caused by exhaustion and stress Thursday. His hospitalization comes a day after announcing his resignation following a sound electoral beating and the resignations of several government ministers.
U.S. stocks are likely to trade lower Thursday, with oil prices hovering near $80 a barrel and the dollar near an all-time low versus the euro.
CNNMoney: Japanese stocks mixedupdated: Thu Sep 13 2007 04:16:00
Japanese stocks were mixed Thursday as traders were jittery over the outlook for the government after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation a day earlier.
Japanese political leaders are looking for a replacement for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced his resignation Wednesday after an electoral beating and the resignations of several government ministers.
The Prime Minister vowed to restore Japan's place on the world stage. His resignation may be a sign that domestic concerns will turn the country inward again
It was a heyday for comic books on the Tokyo stock market.
U.S. stock futures indicated a weak open Wednesday as record high oil prices and weakness in the dollar weighed on investors and a cloud of uncertainty was cast over Japan.
U.S. stock futures indicated a weak open Wednesday as record high oil prices weighed on investors and a cloud of uncertainty was cast over Japan.
Treasury prices fell Wednesday, their recent sharp run-up interrupted by concerns about the U.S. dollar and the size of anticipated rate cuts.
Abe resigns
updated: Wed Sep 12 2007 04:25:00
Japanese Prime Miniser Shinzo Abe announces he isstepping down.
Japanese stocks fell Wednesday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to resign after a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he will resign, ending a troubled year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat
The dollar sank to an all-time low against the euro Wednesday amid speculation that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates by as much as half a percentage point.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is staking his job on Japan's continued support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it's matters closer to home that threaten him most
Fireworks go off in Sydney in honor of the APEC summit, which President Bush is attending.
Just a week after naming a new Cabinet in an effort to regain public trust, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hit Wednesday with another scandal -- calls for his environment minister to resign over misreported political funds.
Japan's agriculture minister resigned Monday only a week after his appointment because of a scandal involving misuse of farm subsidies, the fourth Cabinet minister to step down in the past year.
In a bid to improve the credibility of his struggling administration, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appoints a slew of political veterans
Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear-arms programs in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has picked veteran lawmakers for key posts in a new cabinet line-up to be unveiled on Monday, media said, to try to revive faltering support after a massive election defeat.
A member of a Japanese right-wing group was arrested on Thursday after he sent his severed little finger to the ruling party's headquarters in protest at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's failure to visit a Tokyo war shrine.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday met the son of an Indian judge who opposed punishing Japanese war criminals convicted by an Allied tribunal, a move that has come under fire in some other Asia countries.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Wednesday for a "broader Asia" partnership of democracies that would include India, the United States and Australia but leave out the region's superpower, China.
The country's annual assertion of nationalism has suddenly lost symbolic heft as the Prime Minister skips visiting a shrine to Japan's war dead
Newly in charge of the upper house of the legislature, an opposition leader calls for an end to Japanese involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. His target is Prime Minister Abe, but his country's alliance with the U.S. could suffer collateral damage
A crushing election defeat for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling camp on Sunday could hurt Tokyo shares, boost bonds and raise questions about the chance of an early interest rate hike, market analysts said.
A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck just off the northwestern Japanese coast Monday morning, knocking down several small buildings and resulting in at least 20 injuries, authorities reported.
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake, centered 17 kilometers below sea level, struck just off the northwestern Japanese coast Monday morning, knocking down several small buildings and resulting in at least 20 injuries, authorities reported.
A Japanese nuclear power plant shut down following a major earthquake on Monday leaked water containing radioactive materials from a reactor, according to the company running the facility.
As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
A congressional resolution on women forced into prostitution by theJapanese military highlights Tokyo's evasion
The country's controversial Agriculture Minister is found hanging at the end of a dog leash
In a rare international television interview Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sits with TALK ASIA's Anjali Rao ahead of his much talked-about and 'delayed' first official trip to the United States. He discusses Japan's current relationship with the U.S., the issue of "comfort women," his stance on North Korea, and Japanese domestic issues including changing the constitution and the economy. His popular wife, likened to U.S. presidential candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton, also joins him to chat as she reveals her fondness for Korean pop culture.
She's 78 years old, but for Lee Young-soo, life as she knew it ended at age 15 -- when the Japanese government forced her to become a sex slave for its military members during World War II.
North Korea claimed it conducted a successful underground nuclear test Monday, according to the country's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Japan's newly elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is ready to work to improve relations with key regional neighbors China and South Korea, according to news reports Wednesday.
A silver-haired prime minister furrows his brow as experts brief the Japanese cabinet on a looming national crisis. A trusted aide urges immediate action, but senior ministers scoff that nothing ca...
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has elected Shinzo Abe as its new president , virtually assuring him of the role of succeeding Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister of Japan on September 26.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, 51, is the front-runner to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as the next president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, a post which will carry with it the prime ministership of Japan.
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Japan still wants a United Nations resolution on North Korea's missile tests that includes sanctions, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said on Friday, Reuters news agency reported.
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