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Japan PM Suga to resign amid criticism over COVID-19 response
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 3 (ANI): Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said he will not run for party re-election as a leader this month, amid criticism over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Taiwan, Japan to hold first-ever security talks as China escalates border
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 20 (ANI): Japanese and Taiwanese officials are set to hold first-ever security talks to address the military and "gray-zone" coercion tactics that China imposes on both nations, a media report said on Thursday.
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Japan's ruling party postpones bill supporting LGBT community
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party chose not to submit to the current parliamentary session a cross-party bill that would give LGBT minorities more awareness, due to difficulties among the party's lawmakers in reaching a general agreement on some asp
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Cancelling Tokyo Olympics 'an option' says Japan's ruling party official
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 15 (ANI): Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai said on Thursday that cancelling this summer's Tokyo Olympics may be an option if the spread of coronavirus infections forces organisers to think it would be difficult to hold the even
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Yoshihide Suga elected as Japan prime minister
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 16 (ANI): Yoshihide Suga, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected Japan's prime minister by the powerful House of Representatives on Wednesday.
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Yoshihide Suga wins Japan's ruling party's leadership vote, set to become
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Monday won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership vote and will secure the post of the Prime Minister.
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Japan's ruling party to hold leadership vote on Monday after Abe's sudden
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will elect its new president following an unexpected resignation by the party's leader and longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.
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Japan mulls picking new Prime Minister on September 17
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Aug 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Japan is considering to hold an extraordinary parliamentary session on September 17 to pick the country's new Prime Minister to succeed Shinzo Abe, local media reported on Sunday.
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary to join race for succeeding Abe
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Aug 30 (ANI): Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will join the race to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who would, in turn, become the next country's premier, a source familiar with the matter told Kyodo Ne
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Japan's Defence Minister undecided on running for position of ruling party
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Japanese Defence Minister Taro Kono said on Saturday that he is yet to make a decision on whether to run for the position of the head of ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which also envisages premiership, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to step
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Liberal Democrat MEPs under fire for concern over Kashmir, ignoring prickl
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels, Belgium Sept 5 (ANI): Ten Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) hailing from the UK's Liberal Democratic Party, who showed concern over the Kashmir issue, are now facing the heat for ignoring various issues that the world faces today.
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Japan's ruling bloc wins upper house elections, constitutional reform suff
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 22 (ANI): Japan's ruling bloc, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, maintained a majority in the upper house by winning more than half the seats in Sunday's elections.
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