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  • July 2008

    • China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan

      newser  |  Financial Times (UK)  |  Jul 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT

      China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan

      Neither China nor India agreed to adopt the G8's targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 at their joint meeting today. Asia's two big developing economies, joined by Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, said carbon reductions would endanger their growth and exacerbate poverty, and that rich nations should clean up the mess they had created. The emerging economies' holdout was only one of many signs that the G8 is losing clout, reports the Financial Times. More »

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      China  • climate change  • environment  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • carbon emissions  • G8 summit  • Yasuo Fukuda  • developing countries

  • June 2008

    • Under Fire, Japan's PM Won't Bow to Election Calls

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jun 11, 08 10:29 AM CDT

      Under Fire, Japan's PM Won't Bow to Election Calls

      Japan's prime minister suffered a humiliating blow today in a no-confidence motion passed by the upper house of the country's legislature—a post-war first, the BBC reports. Although the measure isn't politically binding, it's the latest step by the opposition to force Yasuo Fukuda to call new elections, a call Fukuda has repeatedly dismissed. More »

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      Japan  • Yasuo Fukuda  • no confidence

  • May 2008

    • Chinese Prez Back in Tokyo After Decade Without Visit

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 6, 08 2:46 PM CDT

      Chinese Prez Back in Tokyo After Decade Without Visit

      Chinese President Hu Jintao today began a five-day trip to Japan, where he is expected to discuss a new panda for a popular zoo—and play ping-pong with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, the BBC reports. The visit is the first by a Chinese president in a decade, and patching up relations after a rocky period will be the main theme. More »

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      China  • Japan  • Hu Jintao  • Yasuo Fukuda

  • April 2008

    • Opposition Finally Backs New Chief for Bank of Japan

      newser  |  International Business Times  |  Apr 9, 08 2:45 AM CDT

      Opposition Finally Backs New Chief for Bank of Japan

      The Democratic Party of Japan has accepted a new central banker just in time for the crucial meeting of G7 finance leaders in Washington on Friday, reports the International Business Times . The top spot has been vacant since March 19, leaving the bank vulnerable during an unsteady economic time. Masaaki Shirakawa is expected to be formally nominated today as Bank of Japan chief. More »

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      Japan  • credit crisis  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Tokyo  • Japanese economy  • Democratic Party of Japan  • Bank of Japan

  • March 2008

    • Japan Faces Credit Crisis With No Central Bank Governor

      newser  |  AFP  |  Mar 21, 08 9:58 AM CDT

      Japan Faces Credit Crisis With No Central Bank Governor

      When markets are in chaos and currencies are fluctuating wildly, central bankers jump in to try to provide stability, as Ben Bernanke has done at the Fed. But in Tokyo a political standoff has left the Bank of Japan without a leader at the worst possible moment, reports the AFP. If MPs can't agree on a BoJ governor soon, the world's second-largest economy could face a serious crisis. More »

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      Japan  • credit crisis  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Tokyo  • Japanese economy  • Bank of Japan

    • Blair Pitches Global Climate Pact

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 14, 08 3:44 AM CDT

      Blair Pitches Global Climate Pact

      Former British prime minister Tony Blair will seek to privately broker a new international agreement to cut carbon emissions by 50% before 2050 that would include China, India and the US, reports the Guardian . Blair has been working on the project with climate change experts since he left office last summer. He's convinced global warming is the biggest threat the world faces and that action must be taken in the next two years or it will be too late to reverse the problem. More »

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      China  • climate change  • global warming  • India  • carbon emissions  • Tony Blair  • G8 summit  • Yasuo Fukuda  • USA  • Kyoto treaty

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Fukuda in China to Thaw Frosty Relations

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Dec 27, 07 2:40 PM CST

      Fukuda in China to Thaw Frosty Relations

      Yasuo Fukuda is in Beijing, where the Japanese PM is hoping to solidify improved relations between two countries with a troubled past.  In contrast to his two predecessors, Fukuda is a pro-Asian leader; as he reminds his Chinese hosts, his own father brought in the Japan-China peace treaty 29 years ago, Bloomberg reports. More »

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      China  • Japan  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Junichiro Koizumi

  • November 2007

    • Fukuda Govt Roiled by Scandal

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 28, 07 10:14 AM CST

      Fukuda Govt Roiled by Scandal

      In a growing corruption scandal, a former vice defense minister and his wife were arrested today over charges that he awarded contracts to companies that wined and dined him, the AP reports. Takemasa Moriya admits he enjoyed free golf trips and expensive dinners on the tab of the recently arrested owner of two defense companies, but argues the gifts were not bribery. More »

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      Japan  • scandals  • corruption  • bribery  • Yasuo Fukuda  • General Electric

    • Bush, Japanese PM Boost Ties

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Nov 16, 07 5:25 PM CST

      Bush, Japanese PM Boost Ties

      President Bush and new Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda today vowed to reconcile hot-button issues concerning North Korea and Afghanistan that have strained relations, Reuters reports. In his first visit to the White House, Fukuda pledged to do his "utmost" to renew a refueling mission for coalition forces in Afghanistan, which has been halted by a parliamentary stalemate. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Afghanistan  • Japan  • North Korea  • Yasuo Fukuda  • nuclear disarmament

    • Bush's Japan Policy Lost in Translation

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Nov 16, 07 11:33 AM CST

      Bush's Japan Policy Lost in Translation

      As President Bush welcomes the third Japanese prime minister in 3 years to Washington today, a former Tokyo correspondent writes in the Los Angeles Times that current difficulties with arguably our most important ally stem from a fundamental Bush misunderstanding. W has confused Japan with the US's other "special relationship," he writes, and treated Japanese PMs as if they were Tony Blair. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • Japan  • diplomacy  • Yasuo Fukuda

    • Japanese PM Pushes Restart of Afghan Duty

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Nov 13, 07 10:21 AM CST

      Japanese PM Pushes Restart of Afghan Duty

      The lower house of Japan's Diet approved a bill today that would resume the country's naval support for the war in Afghanistan. The legislation, pushed through just days before PM Yasuo Fukuda travels to Washington, will allow the Japanese self-defense force to refuel American ships on their way to the Mideast. But the bill's passage in the Diet's upper house isn't assured, and a stalemate could trigger an early election, Reuters reports. More »

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      Japan  • Yasuo Fukuda

    • US Urges Japan to Return to Afghanistan

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Nov 8, 07 1:25 PM CST

      US Urges Japan to Return to Afghanistan

      Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Japan today to resume a naval support mission for US operations in Afghanistan, Reuters reports. Japan has conducted refueling operations in the region for the past six years at a cost of approximately $195 million. The mission was stopped earlier this month after an opposition party, citing lack of a UN mandate, withdrew support. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Japan  • War on Terror  • North Korea  • Robert Gates  • Yasuo Fukuda

    • Japanese Opposition Leader Un-Quits

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Nov 6, 07 12:20 PM CST

      Japanese Opposition Leader Un-Quits

      The leader of Japan's opposition party has withdrawn his resignation after 2 days of wrangling in the country's latest political crisis, Bloomberg reports. "This is truly embarrassing," a party official quoted Ichiro Ozawa as saying. The Democratic Party of Japan had asked Ozawa to reconsider, fearing a split in the party and a weak election showing. More »

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      Japan  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Democratic Party of Japan  • Ichiro Ozawa

    • Japanese Party Scrambles to Keep Boss to Dodge Chaos

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 5, 07 2:30 AM CST

      Japanese Party Scrambles to Keep Boss to Dodge Chaos

      Members of Japan's opposition party are pleading with their leader to rethink his announced resignation, fearing the move will break up the party and hurt its chances at the polls. The head of the Democratic Party of Japan said he would resign yesterday after the party leadership resoundingly voted to reject a power-sharing alliance he had brokered with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Japan  • resignation  • America  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Indian Ocean  • Liberal Democratic Party  • Democratic Party of Japan  • parliament  • Ichiro Ozawa  • refueling

    • 250 Taliban Surrounded, Villagers Flee

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 1, 07 8:55 AM CDT

      250 Taliban Surrounded, Villagers Flee

      Some 250 Taliban fighters are surrounded by coalition troops just 15 miles north of the Taliban’s old power base of Kandahar, the AP reports. Villagers fled as the insurgents took over their homes. “They’re surrounded and in big trouble,” said Kandahar police. But the coalition lost the support of Japanese fuel ships, Reuters reports, which Tokyo withdrew today over political deadlock. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Japan  • Taliban  • United States  • Canada  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Kandahar  • coalition forces

  • October 2007

    • Japan Backs Off Support of Afghan War

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 30, 07 1:30 PM CDT

      Japan Backs Off Support of Afghan War

      Japan's PM is being forced to withdraw the country's support for coalition forces in Afghanistan because the opposition party refuses to back the mission without UN support. Yasuo Fukuda's party could swing the votes for an override, but doing so would probably lead to an early election—which Fukuda might well lose, reports the Guardian. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Japan  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Ichiro Ozawa

  • September 2007

    • Violent Face-Off Rages in Burma

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 28, 07 4:44 AM CDT

      Violent Face-Off Rages in Burma

      A brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters continued after a bloody confrontation yesterday when soldiers shot dead at least nine people,  including a Japanese news photographer. Troops again opened fire on demonstrators today, cut internet connections and sealed monasteries as crowds defied orders from the ruling military junta to disperse. Five monasteries were sealed with barbed-wire barricades guarded by soldiers. More »

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      Burma  • Buddhist monks  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Burma protest

    • Fukuda Steps In as Japan's PM

      newser  |  BBC  |  Sep 25, 07 5:11 AM CDT

      Fukuda Steps In as Japan's PM

      Lawmaker Yasuo Fukuda, the 71-year-old son of a former Japanese prime minister, has now taken the top job himself after winning a parliamentary election. The new leader of the dominant Liberal Democratic Party bagged 338 votes in the lower house, 100 votes more than the majority he needed, the BBC reports. More »

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      Japan  • Yasuo Fukuda  • Shinzo Abe  • Ichiro Ozawa

    • Fukuda to Be Japan's Next Prime Minister

      newser  |  BBC  |  Sep 23, 07 6:40 AM CDT

      Fukuda to Be Japan's Next Prime Minister

      Moderate lawmaker Yasuo Fukuda has beaten out hawkish former foreign minister Taro Aso in a ruling party vote for the leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, paving the way for his appointment as prime minister.  Former PM Shinzo Abe vacated the post following a series of mistakes and scandals. Fukuda, the dovish son of a previous prime minister, won 63% of the vote. More »

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      Yasuo Fukuda  • Shinzo Abe  • Taro Aso

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