Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Japan -- a staunch U.S. ally -- stood by its decision to back the war because Iraq still posed a threat because it had previously been developing such weapons and it was not clear whether it had abandoned those programs.
Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Osamu Fujimura, called the statue "extremely regrettable", the Associated Press reports.
Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, has confirmed the deaths of the two Japanese tourists.
"These negotiations are about the protection of maritime resources in the East China Sea, " Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday.
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said that representatives from the defence ministry had told US officials that "the incident is completely unacceptable".
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, expressed "deep regret" at the actions of the Algerian security forces and its foreign ministry summoned the Algerian ambassador.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Speaker Yoshihide Suga told reporters that restarting the Yongbyon nuclear plant would represent a violation of promises made to its neighbors and the United Nations.
But South Korea said it will test airline passengers arriving from the United States, and Japan will convene a Cabinet meeting Monday to come up with measures to block the entry of the virus into the country.
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Mr. Roh's arrest followed closely the government's invective against a Japanese cabinet minister who said Japan had done some "good things" during its occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945.
That Japan and here I mean not just the Japan Democratic Party (DPJ) Noda cabinet, but also the ministry of foreign affairs (MOFA) and self-defense forces (SDF) bureaucracies, and, particularly, the factions within the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (DPJ) and nationalists allied with former Tokyo major Ishihara Shintaro did not expect a ferocious response from China, including shows of naval force and threats of occupation, is not credible.
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Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, said Mr Tanaka had stepped down due to ill health.
"The Bank of Japan has been under continuous pressure from the cabinet and the finance minister to combat deflation, " said David Cohen at Action Economics in Singapore.
The U.S.-Japan alliance serves as the cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Asia Pacific, and we look forward to working closely with the new Japanese Prime Minister, cabinet, and the people of Japan on a range of important bilateral, regional and global issues.
When a harassed Yasuo Fukuda, the chief cabinet secretary, then reportedly let slip that Japan might rescind its non-nuclear policy, it caused yet another uproar.
The odds ought to favour a double election: opinion polls suggest that Mr Koizumi's reform-minded cabinet enjoys the support of almost every voter in Japan.
Mr Krishna's visit is the first to Japan by an Indian minister since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh named his new cabinet in May.
Anger in South Korea and China was fueled by visits to a controversial war shrine by cabinet members in April and then by comment Mr. Abe made on Japan's wartime role.
The country's chief cabinet secretary, Osamu Fujimura, told a news conference on Friday that Japan had set up a crisis management taskforce to monitor the situation and was co-operating with the US and South Korea.
In Japan a just-promoted politician was forced (by public opinion) to step down from the cabinet because of his conviction for bribery in the 1970s.
Countless attributes mark Mr Fukuda by temperament, dry, cautious and cynical from Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's dashing and reformist prime minister in 2001-06, whom Mr Fukuda served as chief cabinet secretary.
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