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Prensa Latina
March 21, 2018
21 de marzo de 2018, 00:18Tokyo, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia at the end of May on a visit that seeks to accelerate bilateral relations, the Japanese ambassador in Moscow, Toyohisa Kozuki, told the Sputnik news agency. Japan will attend the next edition ofÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
March 19, 2018
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his popularity plunging amid a cronyism scandal, took responsibility on Monday for a loss of trust in his government but denied he or his wife had intervened in a land sale to a school operator with ties to his wife. The finance ministry's announcement last week thatÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 18, 2018
While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacted to the news positively, his government has scrambled to save face. South Korean officials standing in front of the White House briefed the media on the breakthrough and before the fallout had even settled, the Japanese government had offered to donate hundredsÃâà...
BBC News
March 13, 2018
It is no exaggeration to say that the bolt out of the blue commitment by US President Donald Trump to sit down for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has had a severe impact on Japan's government. A carefully crafted, US-Japan co-ordinated strategy - of unremitting political and economicÃâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan offered to resign a year ago if evidence emerged linking him to a sweetheart land deal. No such evidence ever surfaced, allowing him to ride out the scandal and hang on to power. But a government report released on Monday suggests that some crucialÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2018
At a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on Sunday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of the imperial family honoured the roughly 16,000 people left dead as a result of the 2011 disaster. "When I think of the despair of those who lost beloved members of their families and friends in the disaster, I amÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The finance ministry admitted this week that it had altered 14 documents surrounding the sale of public land at an 85% discount to a nationalistic school operator with links to prime minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. The revisions, made early last year, included removing references to Abe and the first ladyÃâà...
