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TOKYO -- The fundraising scandal that has sent support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet plummeting harks back to the Recruit briber

Kishida and the LDP face a historically untenable position in the wake of a yet another Japanese political financial scandal.

Japan’s augmentation of Israel’s new ties with the Gulf could provide tangible support for Middle East peace – far more so than China’s grandiose (and unrealistic) proposal to mediate.

When Emperor Showa died in 1989, Ishihara oversaw the era change from Showa to Heisei and the Taiso no Rei state funeral.

Former Japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu, the politician who visited China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and observed a moment of silence for the dead, has passed away at the age of 91, the Japanese government said on Friday.

Tokyo, Jan 14 (EFE).- Former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, who ruled the country in the early 1990s and sent the army on their first mission abroad, has died at 91, the government reported Friday. Kaifu held a number of Cabinet posts, including Chief Cabinet Secretary, Government Spokesperson and twice Education Minister, before becoming Prime …

Toshiki Kaifu, Japan's prime minister for about two years from 1989, died earlier this month, the government said Friday. He was 91. Kaifu, best known for sending the Maritime Self-Defense Force to the Persian Gulf in 1991 in the SDF's first war-related overseas mission,&#x2...

Toshiki Kaifu, who became prime minister after money and other political scandals rocked the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has died at age 91.

*** Crafty maneuvering by a Japanese politician with backing from Washington led to much milder international condemnation of Chinas Tiananmen Square crackdown than was initially envisaged, declassified documents show. Discussions between Japan, European nations and the United States at the 1989 Group of Seven summit over how to respond to the incident that claimed hundreds, if not thousands, of lives are detailed in three files of documents titled “The Tiananmen Square Incident (The Summit o...

Junichiro Koizumi Fast Facts Here’s a look at the life of Junichiro Koizumi, former Japanese prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Personal Birth place: Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Birth name: Junichiro Koizumi Father: Junya Samejima, member of the House of Representatives and director general of the Japan Defense Agency. (He adopted his wife’s family name of Koizumi when they wed.) Mother: Yoshi Koizumi Children: Sons: Kotaro Koizumi, Shinjiro Koizumi...