Tag Archives: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 Tokyo – Japan’s gaffe-prone disaster reconstruction minister resigned Wednesday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic 2011 earthquake-tsunami had hit a largely rural region rather than Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to apologise to residents of the devastated northeastern region of Tohoku, which is …

Friday, 28 July 2017 Tokyo – Hawkish Japanese defence minister Tomomi Inada on Friday announced her resignation over a long-brewing scandal involving the handling of military documents, in a political blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “I decided to resign as defence minister,” Inada told a press conference at the …

Friday, 14 July 2017 TOKYO – Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, battered by losses in a Tokyo assembly election and a smouldering scandal, has fallen below 30%, the lowest since he returned to power in 2012, according to an opinion poll released on Friday. Suspicion of scandal over …