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...touched the third rail of Japanese politics, incurring the wrath of the influential A-bomb victims' groups. Though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe briefly supported his handpicked defense chief, by July 3 it was clear Kyuma had to go. "I told Prime Minister Abe I would take responsibility and resign," Kyuma said to reporters Tuesday afternoon. "I truly apologize for having troubled and caused worry to the people of Nagasaki." Abe replaced Kyuma with the hawkish national security adviser Yuriko Koike, who becomes Japan's first-ever female Defense Minister...
...Analysts say that the Prime Minister's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is likely headed for a fall at the Diet Upper House elections July 29 - and that failure at the polls could force Abe to resign. "Just as the LDP is looking for a comeback, its own member stirs things up for the worse," says Ikuo Hata, a Japanese historian at Nihon University. "Abe comes out of this looking like a lightweight as a leader and a Prime Minister...
Smith reported in a June 18 letter to professors that Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol, who announced in March that she would resign this summer after two years in office, had agreed to continue leading the school until Smith found a permanent replacement...
...explained that he had discussed his decision to resign in the spring with Knowles and Pilbeam but waited until he had the chance to discuss it further—as well as the date of the completion of his service—with Faust and Smith. With Smith beginning his term in the middle of July, "we chose the end of August to give him some time to choose and recruit a replacement," Gross wrote. Gross will conclude his tenure as dean...
CORRECTION: The June 29 news article "With Goals Accomplished, Gross Leaves Overhauled College" incorrectly suggested that former Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 voluntarily stepped down from his position in 2003. In fact, Lewis was forced to resign his post after a reorganization of the College administration...