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		<title>Abe betting this tax hike will be different</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Reynolds  and Toru Fujioka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s different this time. The four most dangerous words in markets, according to former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. With the consumption tax set to be raised for the first time since 1997, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s political future rides on a different outcome than last time &#8212; when the economy slid into a recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beach-storming drill in U.S. hones SDF amphibious edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Reynolds, Takashi Hirokawa,  and Aki Ito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thousand members of the Self-Defense Forces have been learning how to recapture territory in the face of enemy fire, and while the shoreline may be California&#8217;s, the skills they are building could one day be used closer to home. During the two-week Dawn Blitz joint drills in June, a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe&#8217;s success with BOJ picks likely to boost LDP prospects for July poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Reynolds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is riding a popularity wave unseen by six immediate predecessors, including himself in his first short-lived stint, as he pushes his Bank of Japan nominees through a divided Diet, raising the odds of the ruling party winning a July election. Buoyed by a surge in the benchmark stock index to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to push entry of U.S. automakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Dorning  and Isabel Reynolds</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Froman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama won&#8217;t back off demands that Japan ease barriers for U.S. automakers before joining negotiations for a regional Pacific trade agreement when he meets Friday in Washington with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, White House aides said. A more open market for companies such as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China takes Senkakus row to U.N.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavia Krause-Jackson  and Isabel Reynolds</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese airspace near the Senkakus, China compounded bilateral tensions by bolstering its territorial claim to the isles at the United Nations. On Dec. 14, two days before the Lower House election, Beijing submitted to the world body an 11-page report citing the continental shelf&#8217;s geology to claim ownership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPJ blows chance to establish two-party rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brinsley  and Isabel Reynolds</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It took 54 years for the nation&#8217;s politics to produce a viable opposition party, and 39 months for it to self-destruct after winning power, splintering prospects for an enduring policy-driven two-party system. The Democratic Party of Japan lost three-fourths of its seats in the Lower House on Sunday, three years after sweeping the Liberal Democratic [...]]]></description>
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