Yoshihiko Noda
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be seeking to put a strong U.S.-Japan alliance on full display in the face of potential threats in Asia when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday.
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"There is a very clear trend to over-represent older prefectures, and that means the Diet is stacked in favour of higher spending for pensions, welfare and medical care at the expense of the interests of younger people- education, R&D and economic sustainability," said Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities in Tokyo.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be seeking to put a strong U.S.-Japan alliance on full display in the face of potential threats in Asia when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday.
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TOKYO, Jan 27- Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government rose by 4.7 percentage points to two-thirds of voters in the month since his Liberal Democratic Party returned to power, a poll by the Kyodo news agency showed on Sunday.
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TOKYO, Jan 16- Japan must not create a leadership vacuum at the Bank of Japan when its governor's term ends in April, the head of the main opposition party said, suggesting the party would not delay the appointment as it did five years ago as a political tactic.
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TOKYO, Jan 16- Japan must not allow a leadership vacuum at the Bank of Japan when its governor's term ends in April, said the leader of Japan's main opposition party, which delayed the appointment of a new governor at the last leadership change five years ago.
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TOKYO, Jan 14- Buoyed by a December election landslide, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is rolling out a comprehensive PR strategy mixing Facebook, public appearances and policy announcements to prop up voter ratings ahead of a crucial July poll in an effort to avoid becoming just the latest of the country's short-term leaders.
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TOKYO, Dec 26- New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his cabinet line-up on Wednesday after being voted in by parliament. A fan of "manga" comics and the grandson of a prominent post-World War Two premier, Aso served as prime minister from 2008-2009, leading his Liberal Democratic Party to a crushing defeat in August 2009.
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TOKYO, Dec 20- Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Thursday that the central bank will debate next month whether there is any room to review the level of price growth that it sees as desirable in the long run. We also received a request recently from the Liberal Democratic Party's Shinzo Abe to review our price goal.
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TOKYO, Dec 16- Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party surged back to power in an election on Sunday just three years after a devastating defeat, giving ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push his hawkish security agenda and radical economic recipe.
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An LDP win will usher in a government committed to a tough stance in a territorial row with China, a pro-nuclear energy policy, a potentially risky prescription for hyper-easy monetary policy and big fiscal spending to beat deflation and tame the yen.
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TOKYO, Dec 14- Economists have stood by forecasts of Japan making a fragile recovery early next year to exit a shallow recession, with high expectations that an election on Sunday will usher in a new government intent on aggressive monetary easing, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
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*New right-leaning Japan Restoration Party struggling. TOKYO, Dec 14- Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party is on track for a stunning victory in Sunday's election, returning to power with hawkish former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the helm, and possibly ending Japan's political gridlock.
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TOKYO, Dec 14- Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party is on track for a stunning victory in Sunday's election, returning to power with hawkish former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the helm, and possibly ending Japan's political gridlock.
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TOKYO, Dec 13- Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party and its smaller ally could win a two-thirds majority in a Dec. 16 election for parliament's lower house, a survey showed on Thursday, a result that would help break the policy deadlock plaguing the world's third-biggest economy.
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TOKYO/ TAKATSUKI, Dec 11- Conservative former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its smaller ally are heading for a resounding victory in Sunday's election, winning more than 300 seats in parliament's 480- member lower house, media surveys showed on Tuesday.
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TOKYO, Dec 11- Hawkish former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its smaller ally are on track for a resounding victory in Sunday's election, winning more than 300 seats in parliament's 480- member lower house, media surveys showed on Tuesday.
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TOKYO, Dec 11- Hawkish former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its smaller coalition partner are on track for a resounding victory in Sunday's election, winning more than 300 seats in the 480- member lower house, media surveys showed on Tuesday.
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TOKYO, Dec 7- Japan's general election this month and political calls for a big supplementary budget will delay the drafting of next fiscal year's state budget until January for the first time in nearly two decades, government sources say.
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*Social media use has jumped in Japan since last election. TOKYO, Dec 6- The social media steamroller credited with helping Barack Obama win re-election as U.S. president is playing a bigger role than ever before in Japanese politics as the country prepares for national elections on Dec 16.
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TOKYO, Dec 6- Japan's main opposition Liberal Democratic Party looks to be on course to win a solid majority on its own in the Dec. 16 parliamentary election and return to power for the first time since 2009, media polls showed on Thursday.