Japan’s newly empowered opposition rushes to ready Cabinet after election landslideTOKYO — Japan’s newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers and start making good on promises to revive the world’s second-largest economy after his party’s historic trouncing of the ruling conservatives. Calls for quick action in Japan after opposition sweeps to historic win, host of problems loomTOKYO — The morning after a historic victory by Japan’s opposition party in national elections, pressure was already mounting Monday for quick, definitive action on a host of problems facing the country, with jump-starting the economy at the top of the list. Family fortune helped fuel Sen. Kennedy’s successful winning streak and forge liberal agendaBOSTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy’s family fortune not only fueled his brothers’ presidential campaigns and his eight terms in the U.S. Senate, it also helped drive the family’s liberal legacy and forge Kennedy’s lifelong crusade for universal health care. Analysis: With victory, Democrats must convince skeptical public that they can deliver changeTOKYO — Sunday’s election results in Japan may seem like a clear mandate for change. Looks can be misleading. Opposition poised to win landslide victory in Japan, unseating long-ruling conservativesTOKYO — Japan’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. Japanese opposition leader Hatoyama, a political blue blood, had long wait in wingsTOKYO — Though politics is in his blood, Japan’s opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama has had a long wait in the wings. Japan’s ruling party concedes election defeat; opposition poised to win landslide victoryTOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat in elections Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change. Japanese prime minister concedes defeat in election, suggests he will resign as party leaderTOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has conceded defeat in nationwide elections, suggesting he will step down from his position as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. NHK says exit polls show landslide victory for opposition Democratic Party of JapanTOKYO — A TV report says exit polls show the opposition Democratic Party of Japan has won a landslide victory in nationwide parliamentary elections. Media projects opposition wins landslide victory in Japan electionsTOKYO — Japan’s opposition party won historic elections in an apparent landslide Sunday, media projections said, sending the conservatives to defeat after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change. Japan votes in parliamentary elections; Opposition Democrats tipped to winTOKYO — Japan voted Sunday in parliamentary elections expected to end the ruling conservative party’s nearly 54 years of power and give a largely untested opposition group a chance to make good on their promises to revive the ailing economy and turn around record-high unemployment. Japanese vote in parliamentary elections; opposition tipped to winTOKYO — Japan voted Sunday in parliamentary elections expected to end the ruling conservative party’s nearly 54 years in power and give a largely untested opposition a chance to make good on its promises to revive the ailing economy and turn around record-high unemployment. Polls open in election for Japan’s lower house of parliamentTOKYO — Polls have opened in Japan’s nationwide parliamentary election. Opposition appears headed for overwhelming win in Japan elections as voters seek changeTOKYO — Japanese cast ballots Sunday in hotly contested parliamentary elections in which the ruling conservative party, battered by a laggard economy and voter desire for change after more than half a century of virtual one-party rule, was expected to suffer an overwhelming defeat. A look at the leaders of the top parties vying in Japan’s parliamentary electionA look at the leaders of the top parties taking part in Japan’s parliamentary election Sunday: A look at leaders of the top parties vying in Japan’s parliamentary electionA look at the leaders of the top parties taking part in Japan’s parliamentary election Sunday: A glance at Japan’s parliamentary electionsA look at Japan’s political outlook under its newly elected leadership: Opposition appears headed for overwhelming win in Japan as candidates make final appealsTOKYO — The conservative party that has run Japan for virtually all of the past 54 years was widely expected to face overwhelming defeat as candidates made their final pitches Saturday in one of the most heated parliamentary elections in decades. Candidates make final appeals ahead of Japanese polls that could bring opposition victoryTOKYO — Japan’s top political leaders made their final appeals to voters Saturday before crucial parliamentary elections that could bring a sweeping victory for the opposition and break the ruling party’s decades-long grip on power. Left presses for liberal health bill in Kennedy’s memory; GOP sees compromise as his legacyWASHINGTON — Liberals and conservatives, at odds over health care, are competing to use the legacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to further their goals. Kennedy, dealmaker who came of age in era of party factions, leaves a more polarized SenateWASHINGTON — Over nearly a half-century, Ted Kennedy watched his beloved Senate change from a collegial boys’ club known for bipartisan deal-cutting to a far less friendly place dominated by polarized parties, where broad compromise is a dying art. Candidates make appeals ahead of Japanese elections; poll says opposition holding leadTOKYO — Japan’s top political leaders took their appeals directly to the voters across the country Friday ahead of crucial parliamentary elections that polls suggest the opposition could win in a landslide, breaking the ruling party’s nearly 54-year grip on power. Leading House liberal, health care negotiator slams party moderates over public planWASHINGTON — A key House liberal suggested Thursday that party moderates who’ve pushed for changes in health care legislation are “brain dead” and out for insurance company campaign donations. Family Politics: Japan opposition leader looks to defeat party his grandfather builtTOKYO — A political blue blood like many in Japanese politics, Yukio Hatoyama is poised to become the country’s next prime minister in a most unlikely way — by taking down the seemingly invincible political machine his own grandfather helped create. Internet campaigning arrives cautiously in restrictive Japan ahead of national electionsTOKYO — Japan is one of the world’s most Internet-savvy nations — except when it comes to politics. Decades-old rules have effectively banned campaigning on the Web. Net campaigning arrives cautiously in restrictive Japan ahead of nationwide ballotTOKYO — Japan is one of the world’s most Internet-savvy nations — except when it comes to politics. Decades-old rules have effectively banned campaigning on the Web. No match for the man: Kennedy’s political and legislative legacy has few heirsWASHINGTON — In the halls of liberalism, it’s hard to imagine anyone filling such a void. Sen. Edward Kennedy was the thundering partisan, the unapologetic liberal leader, the master legislative dealmaker and tactician. He was also flawed, haunted by tragedy, yet a portrait in charm and Irish bonhomie. Poll: Japanese opposition party set for landslide victory in Sunday electionsTOKYO — Japan’s main opposition party is set to secure a landslide victory against Prime Minister Taro Aso’s ruling party by winning a two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament in elections this weekend, a poll projected Thursday. Kennedy’s death leaves Senate mired in angry health care debate without respected dealmakerWASHINGTON — In an era of bitter political division, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s death silenced a singular voice of bipartisanship at a time when colleagues are struggling with angry constituents and each other over an elusive plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system. A torch goes out: Edward Kennedy, Senate legend and last in a storied line of brothersHYANNIS PORT, Mass. — The greatest heights eluded Ted Kennedy over a lifetime of achievement and pain. No presidency. No universal health care, chief among his causes. |
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