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Federal support of research has been declining since 2004, according to Kei Koizumi, director of the research and development budget and policy program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...Koizumi also said he was concerned that federal support for research could be cut depending on how the proposed bailout package is financed. “Of course, if they are making spending cuts, federal funding for research and higher education could be cut in the new year,” he said...
...chide Aso, a former foreign minister, as too hawkish, gruff and outspoken. In the past, he put his foot in his mouth by saying that "even Alzheimer's patients" could tell that rice was more expensive in China, and in response to China's criticism of former Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine (considered by some to be a symbol of Japan's wartime aggression) he told China "to keep quiet". His political gaffes make headlines, make LDP members cringe and, in the past, have strained ties with China. But Aso's awareness of his shortcomings...
Yuriko Koike A protg of popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Koike is touted for her foreign policy expertise and has served as both Environment Minister and Defense Minister...
...throw in the towel with under a year in office (Shinzo Abe did the same last year) and the third to do so without holding a general election. Few prime ministers have been able to rise to the pop star status of Junichiro "the reformer" Koizumi, whose time in office saw Japan taking a more vocal role in global politics. But Fukuda was quitting for the sake of his organization, the Liberal Democratic Party - and he may have a strategy in mind...