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		<title>Analysis: With victory, Democrats must convince skeptical public that they can deliver change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Sunday&#8217;s election results in Japan may seem like a clear mandate for change. Looks can be misleading.

Japan&#8217;s voters resoundingly kicked out the party that has governed their country for virtually all the past half century. The newly empowered Democratic Party of Japan&#8217;s time to celebrate, though, could be short-lived.
They&#8217;ve made their promises, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new leaders to seek closer ties with Asia, but not at expense of US alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Yamaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — As Japan&#8217;s opposition leader, Yukio Hatoyama was a strong critic of what he called Tokyo&#8217;s subservient position to Washington. But with his party now expected to take power, he is not likely to do anything to derail what has been Japan&#8217;s most successful overseas alliance, analysts said.

Hatoyama, whose Democratic Party of Japan appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition poised to win landslide victory in Japan, unseating long-ruling conservatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s opposition swept to a historic victory in elections Sunday, crushing the ruling conservative party that has run the country for most of the postwar era and assuming the daunting task of pulling the economy out of its worst slump since World War II.

A grim-looking Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigning begins for Japan&#8217;s hotly contested elections; ruling party seen as underdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Campaigning began Tuesday for one of the most hotly contested elections Japan has seen in more than a decade, with a major poll saying the party that has run the country for most of the past 55 years is lagging far behind the opposition.

The elections for the lower house of parliament, to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese cabinet clears way for new elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xinhua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO - The Japanese cabinet Tuesday endorsed Prime Minister Taro Aso&#8217;s plan to dissolve the lower house or the House of Representatives later in the day.

All cabinet members signed the dissolution document, including Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano as well as Agriculture Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who have both appeared dissatisfied with Aso&#8217;s decision last week to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Japan&#8217;s ruling party could fall in August vote, heralding new political era</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Talmadge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — A more independent foreign policy, less closely tied to the will of Washington. Tighter fiscal measures, with a slimmer government and a shorter leash on Japan&#8217;s powerful bureaucrats. More military missions abroad with international peacekeeping forces.

The Liberal Democratic Party is widely expected to lose its grip on parliament in elections next month after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan PM to dissolve parliament, call national elections after crushing defeat in Tokyo vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Alabaster</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s struggling prime minister called Monday for national elections next month following a crushing defeat for his party in a Tokyo municipal election seen as a barometer of voter sentiment.

With the opposition surging in popularity — on the back of economic malaise and several gaffes by the ruling party — it appeared increasingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s embattled prime minister to reportedly dissolve parliament, call general elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shino Yuasa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s embattled prime minister has decided to dissolve parliament and call general elections for next month, a news report said Monday, after his party was defeated in a Tokyo municipal poll considered a barometer of voter sentiment.

Broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News said Taro Aso would dissolve the powerful lower house of parliament next [...]]]></description>
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