Yoshihiko Noda elected PM of Japan
Yoshihiko Noda exchanges a few words with a fellow lawmaker before the start of lower house plenary session at the Diet in Tokyo, Japan, on August 30, 2011. UPI/Keizo Mori
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Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has indicated he would approve the construction of more nuclear reactors.
New reactors can be built with people's consent, Japan's new prime minister said, which would alter the previous regime's policy to phase out nuclear power.
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A slowing economy hobbled by deflation poses the biggest challenge to Shinzo Abe as he prepared Wednesday to become Japan's next prime minister.
Japanese Prime Minister-to-be Shinzo Abe plans to appoint veteran party lawmaker Fumio Kishida as foreign minister, sources told Kyodo News Tuesday.
Pacific maritime security will be high on the agenda of Shinzo Abe, Japan's next prime minister, when he meets President Barack Obama likely in January.
Japan's new prime minister – for the second time -- could try to revise the war-renouncing Article 9 of the country's constitution.
The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's elections is seen as a boost for nuclear energy, experts say.
China has submitted to the United Nations what it calls geological evidence that would mean
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