News & Information (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
(Kyodo) _ German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks here on Sunday with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and expressed skepticism over a U.S. initiative to halt the growth of……Read more
SouthAsiaNews.com (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Hanover (Germany), April 21 (DPA) Climate change is the biggest task facing humanity, and technology has a huge role in solving the problem, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday on opening the Germany's Hanover Fair alongside Chancellor Angel Merkel. Abe, speaking as the special envoy of the Japanese government, said Japan was at the [...]
Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Climate change is the biggest task facing humanity, and technology has a huge role in solving the problem, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday on opening the Germany's Hanover Fair.
News & Information (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
(Kyodo) _ — Seiyu Ltd. to be delisted from Tokyo Stock Exchange. — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit Hannover, Germany, as envoy of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda….Read more
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Hanover, Germany - A former Japanese premier, Shinzo Abe, is to jointly open this month's Hanover Fair in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel, marking Japan's status this year at the heavy-industry expo as partner nation, officials said Friday. G...
Japundit (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
When Shinzo Abe was criticized in the media (which was often) he was often described as: kuuki ga yomenai, or being unable to read the air. In other words, he was missing that sense of what was needed in a social situation, an essential trait for Japanese. Did an elderly person need to use the [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The Fukuoka High Court on Wednesday upheld a 12-year prison term for a senior mobster for attacking the home of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other related places in his... Read more ...
Japundit (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
Ah, how I’ve missed him. But former Foreign Minister Taro Aso was back in the news yesterday. Mr Aso has been away from the limelight for a while, after getting shunted aside during the Prime Ministerial changeover from Shinzo Abe to Yasuo Fukuda last autumn. But you knew he couldn't stay quiet for long. He usually has [...]
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
Taro Aso, the man who almost became Prime Minister after Shinzo Abe’s resignation last year, has attracted media attention with comments he made about the latest Chinese import scandal: “I’ve been saying that Japanese agricultural products are expensive but taste good and are clean and safe,” Aso said. “To be blunt, the agricultural cooperatives should thank [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 01/20/2008
In his second policy speech before the Diet, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda made clear that his administration has abandoned the basic policy line of his predecessor, Mr. Shinzo Abe, who called for a... Read more ...
TOKYOMANGO (Free subscription) | 01/13/2008
It's official—former prime minister Shinzo Abe told the press that the main reason he resigned from his post last last year was because he had really bad diarrhea. Abe has a condition called ulcerative colitis. It actually sounds really awful...
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Shinzo Abe would like the world to know that he did not resign last year because of failed policies or election losses. The real reason reason for his resignation was crippling diarrhea that forced him to go to the toilet 30 times a day: Abe said he has been struck by ulcerative colitis, a bowel [...]
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
JAPAN'S former PM Shinzo Abe has abandoned his country's rule of saving face at all costs by describing how severe ongoing diarrhoea forced him to quit.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The abrupt and, at the time, inexplicable resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September stunned the nation, prompting criticism that he was an irresponsible and immature politician who... Read more ...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 12/30/2007
JINAN, China — Shinzo Abe's trip to China as prime minister in October 2006 was dubbed "the ice-breaking trip" to mend diplomatic relations damaged by predecessor Junichiro Koizumi. Then came Premier... Read more ...
