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...mistake, then later told Japanese reporters that Washington should not be so "bossy" over a planned relocation of a U.S. military base on Japan's Okinawa island. Kyuma's remarks were not welcome in Washington, which has grown accustomed to Tokyo's uncritical alliance, nor were Foreign Minister Taro Aso's comments on Feb. 3 that the American plan for Iraq had been "very immature." Both Kyuma and Aso were echoing what a majority of Japanese feel, but their statements seemed almost calculated to cause embarrassment to their boss - a staunch supporter of the U.S. - while currying favor with...
...reinstate 11 of 12 members banished last year after voting against former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal-reform program. Though they pledged to toe the party line, their readmission sent a signal that the LDP's commitment to reform may be halfhearted. "It will hurt us badly," says Taro Kono, assistant chairman of the LDP's policy-research council. "Abe is seen as a weak leader." At least Bono likes...
...While Hill said that North Korea had made no pledge to refrain from further nuclear tests, Japan's conservative Foreign Minister Taro Aso reportedly said that Tokyo opposes resuming the talks unless Pyongyang agrees to renounce its weapons program. North Korea, still stinging from the sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council earlier this month, in the wake of its Oct, 9 test of a small nuclear device, is unlikely before talks even begin to surrender a bomb it spent decades and millions building...
...would be the youngest Japanese Prime Minister in postwar history. His crushing lead in the LDP race?Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki and Foreign Minister Taro Aso, his only opponents, are way behind?means he has been able to run a cautious, purposefully vague campaign, releasing a policy platform that runs to just four pages. "Right now he has the ability to be all things to all people," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "But that will narrow over time." What's certain is that Abe's agenda will...
...main opponents, Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, has come out against the Yasukuni visits, while another, Foreign Minister Taro Aso, wants to sidestep the issue by transforming the shrine into a state-sponsored memorial, instead of a religious one. But Tanigaki and Aso are only polling in the single digits, and the LDP stalwarts who will be voting in the party election tend to be conservative. Abe will have to decide eventually. Many observers assume that his past record means he will make the trip as Prime Minister at some point. But with Abe's proven conservative bona-fides, he might...