Word: junichiro
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...legally banned since 1954 - was hoping to train the members to eventually return home to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Senior Brotherhood leader Essam El Eryan told TIME that his group was "against violence." Families Reunited NORTH KOREA After meeting with leader Kim Jong Il, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won the release of five children of former Japanese abductees who were kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and set free almost two years ago. In return, Koizumi pledged emergency aid for North Korea...
Just six months ago, it looked as if Japan's calcified political system had entered a new and enlightened age. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was slowly dragging the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) into the future by racking up incremental but substantial reforms. Meanwhile, a merger between the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Party last fall had created the nation's first credible opposition party of the postwar era. Led by veteran crusading outsider Naoto Kan, the new DPJ promised to enliven Japan's political stage. Vibrant and serious public debates about the nation's most pressing...
...reasonable person would wager that the last place Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would ever want to revisit would be North Korea. The first time he went, in September 2002, Koizumi intended to show his skill and stature as an international statesman. That backfired spectacularly when Kim Jong Il confessed unrepentantly that North Korea had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s?and had no intention of allowing the five survivors to return home. The Japanese public was outraged, the fate of the kidnap victims became Koizumi's biggest headache, and the issue cramped Japan's ability...
...RESIGNED. YASUO FUKUDA, 67, trusted adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the government's top spokesman; from his position as Chief Cabinet Secretary after he admitted failing to pay his national pension premiums for 105 months from 1976 to 1995; in Tokyo. Fukuda's resignation came amid revelations that seven Cabinet members, and the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, have failed to meet their pension payments, despite a recent government campaign exhorting the public to do so. Announcing his resignation, Fukuda apologized for "intensifying people's distrust in politics...
...stop: Tokyo, where thousands of antiwar demonstrators flooded onto the streets to amplify tearful pleas by the families of the three captives for immediate Japanese troop withdrawal. Just hours after news of the hostage crisis became public, the Japanese government vigorously rejected pulling out its soldiers. For Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, keeping the troops in Iraq is in part a matter of pride. The 550 members of the country's Ground Self-Defense Force in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah are the first Japanese soldiers to serve in a full-fledged combat zone since the end of World...