Article: Fukuda elected prime minister in Diet faceoff: As expected, much of Abe's Cabinet retained.

Article: 1st LD: Japan's upper house chooses Ichiro Ozawa as ...
Xinhua News Agency;  September 24, 2008 ;     337 words ...1st LD: Japan's upper house chooses Ichiro Ozawa as prime minister TOKYO, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The House ... the second round of polling at the 242-seat upper house. Earlier in the day, the House of Representatives ...

Article: Japanese Political Reform Bill Passes Key Panel; Final Floor Vote ...
The Washington Post;  January 21, 1994 ;     667 words ... ... barely a vote to spare, Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa won ... political future. If the prime minister can get his far-reaching ... package through the full upper house of Japan's Diet ... long life. If the upper house rejects the plan ...

Article: Urgent: Japan's upper house chooses Ichiro Ozawa as ...
Xinhua News Agency;  September 24, 2008 ;     246 words ...Urgent: Japan's upper house chooses Ichiro Ozawa as prime minister TOKYO, Sept. 24 (Xinhua ... third term, as Japan's next prime minister. Earlier, the House of Representatives ... Democratic Party, as the new prime minister.

Article: Japanese upper house approves no-confidence vote ...
AP Worldstream;  June 11, 2008 ;     360 words ...Japan's upper house of parliament has approved a no-confidence motion against the prime minister. It was the first time in postwar Japanese ... The chamber voted in an effort to force Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to call snap elections ...

Article: JORDAN: PRIME MINISTER MEETS WITH UPPER ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  March 14, 2002 ;     382 words ... ... details of the meeting of the Prime Minister, Ali Abu al-Gharib, with members of the Upper House of Parliament in late January ... second meeting between the Prime Minister and members of the Upper House in the last weeks of January ...

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (C) leaves the ...
Getty Images;  January 26, 2009 ;     263 words ... ... Images 01-26-2009 Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (C) leaves the Upper House plenary ... Full Size JPG (2227 KB) Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (C) leaves the Upper House plenary session as an opposition ...

Article: Monitor: The Japanese press comments on the victory of ...
The Independent - London;  July 31, 2001 ;     654 words ...Kyodo News Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi heaped praise ... Koizumi's plea. Manichi Shimbun Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a centrepiece ... issues could hobble the popular prime minister: the slowing economy and his plan ...