Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed Wednesday to cooperate on global warming, security and other areas but failed to make progress on signing a free-trade... Read more ...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
SINGULAR VIEW: Why Cabinet Shakeup Is Not Fukuda's OptionTOKYO (Nikkei)--Facing plummeting popularity, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is seeing his grip of government weaken by the day. Deeply worried, many Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers are proposing that a possible quick fix will be for Fukuda to shuffle his cabinet. If Fukuda shows the door to some unpopular members...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Ministers At Odds Over Fukuda's Plan To Spell Out CO2 TargetTOKYO (Nikkei)--Cabinet members are unable to rally behind Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's plan to set Japan's long-term global warming gas reduction target in early June or later, creating a challenge for his leadership.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has told a U.S. newspaper that he expects the United Nations to "more actively intervene" to help cyclone-hit Myanmar at a time when the military government is reluctant... Read more ...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has told a U.S. newspaper that he expects the United Nations to "more actively intervene" to help cyclone-hit Myanmar at a time when the military government is reluctant to...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Japan To Offer Every Support To Quake-Hit China: FukudaTOKYO (Kyodo)--Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda sent a message Monday to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao saying that Japan is prepared to offer every support to quake-hit China if necessary, the Foreign Ministry said.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Fukuda to announce emissions cut target for 2050 in June TOKYO, May 10 (Kyodo) - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda plans to announce Japan's 2050 target
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Hiranuma Wants Fukuda To Boycott Beijing Olympics Opening CeremonyTOKYO (Kyodo)--Former Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma said Sunday that he believes Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda should not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics due to China's crackdown in Tibet and increasing military spending.
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
from The Daily Yomiuri The Yomiuri Shimbun The government will double its official development assistance to African countries over the next five years, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda likely will announce the government's plan at the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) to be held in Yokohama from May 28 to 30. By increasing...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Tokyo, May 16 Kyodo - Hiroshi Okuda, a special adviser to the Cabinet, will visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar from Friday as a special envoy of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, the government said.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has discussed Burma and whaling in his first telephone conversation with his Japanese counterpart. In the 20-minute conversation with Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, Mr...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Opposition is strong in Italy, where 48 per cent oppose attendance and 32 per cent support it, and in Britain, where 43 per cent oppose and 25 per cent favour Gordon Brown's presence. The view is more balanced in Spain, where 39 per cent oppose and 35 per cent favour José Luis Zapatero going. In Japan, 45 per cent oppose the attendance of Yasuo Fukuda, the prime minister, 10 percentage...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Helen Clark has secured a commitment from the Japanese Government to make a study on the benefits of a free-trade deal. The commitment by Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda came after their meeting in Tokyo yesterday. Mr Fukuda's...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
... from May 6 to 10 at the invitation of Japanese government, during which he and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda issued a six-point joint statement on all-round promotion of strategic and mutually beneficial relations between the two countries. The statement, confirming the guiding principles for long-term development of Sino-Japanese relationship, has become the fourth important document...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda sent a message later Monday to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, pledging Japan's "every support" to China if necessary over the powerful earthquake, according to local media on Tuesday ...
