Obuchi had been hospitalized due to "fatigue from overwork, " announced the chief cabinet secretary, Aoki Mikio.
Chris Grayling has written to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretary, asking them to investigate.
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As a potentially pivotal senator, he may be more influential than a Cabinet secretary anyways.
Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, has confirmed the deaths of the two Japanese tourists.
The role of the cabinet secretary, the most senior civil servant, has also changed.
This does not help the cause of the front-runner, Shinzo Abe, the 51-year-old cabinet secretary.
That ought to strengthen the cabinet secretary's ability to drive through the prime minister's priorities.
Chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told an urgent press conference that the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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Instead, said the chief cabinet secretary, Hiromu Nonaka, the autumn budget would concentrate on creating new jobs.
Shouldn't the Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader have gone to the funeral of a Cabinet secretary?
Former Cabinet secretary Elizabeth Dole also focused on agriculture during her speech to Farmland Insurance employees in Des Moines.
Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, said Mr Tanaka had stepped down due to ill health.
Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, has been happier to shine a light on Whitehall's shortcomings than his predecessors.
Cabinet secretary Marsilam Simanjuntak hails from the Democracy Forum, a loose network of pro-democracy thinkers Wahid co-founded in 1991.
There are also 14 Japanese unaccounted for, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the possibility of a significant radiation leak after the second blast is small.
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Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said his nation's officials had urged Algeria's government to avoid exposing hostages to danger.
It also starred Nigel Hawthorne as Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and Derek Fowlds as Hacker's private secretary, Bernard Woolley.
"There is so much conflicting information on safety of the hostages, " Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo.
Mr Yudhoyono's aides say Marsillam Simandjuntak, a doctor who was cabinet secretary during the Abdurrahman Wahid presidency, is their preferred choice.
Earlier, new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura announced the line-up of the new Cabinet, with Kocher Gemba named as foreign minister.
They heard from the then Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell who argued that bringing in new skills and thinking was enormously valuable.
Freedom of information laws should be amended so that minutes of Cabinet meetings are kept private, the out-going cabinet secretary has said.
Former Cabinet secretary Lord Turnbull also gave evidence, launching a withering attack on Mr Price and Sir Christopher for betraying ministerial confidences.
Staffers have already taken in some 18, 000 resumes, a number of them submitted online, for positions ranging from administrative clerk to Cabinet secretary.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said that representatives from the defence ministry had told US officials that "the incident is completely unacceptable".
Scottish Labour MSP Elaine Murray advised the Cabinet Secretary the Scottish government will have to work with the UK government in Scotland's interest.
As the agency once led by our Nation's first female Cabinet Secretary, the Department has broken down barriers to equal opportunity in the workplace.
Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business Bruce Crawford, who had been negotiating details of the independence referendum with the UK government, is retiring from cabinet.
And the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (at 10am) has the Cabinet Secretary, Jeremy Heyward, in front of it, for a discussion of ministerial reshuffles.
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