Japanese Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro lauded his late predecessor, Obuchi Keizo, last week at a memorial service studded with world leaders.
The day before Abe called on Obama, on February 21, former Japanese prime minister Mori Yoshiro was received by Putin in the Kremlin.
Prime Minister Mori, in fact, said while visiting a computer lab at a junior high school last week, that had been his first computer lesson.
Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori faces a no-confidence vote in the Diet today -- called by his own party.
The prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, an old-style dispenser of pork with few obvious modern political skills, wins the approval of just 20% of opinion-poll respondents.
Just last week Masakuni Murakami, a former labour minister and one of the LDP bigshots that chose Mr Mori as prime minister, was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.
Public support for Mr Abe's government looks set to continue falling towards the nadir seen by Yoshiro Mori, prime minister in 2000-2001 (and Mr Abe's political godfather).
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Yoshiro Mori, the prime minister, gets more unpopular by the day.
Even his political godfather, Yoshiro Mori, a former prime minister, seemed at the weekend to give up on Mr Abe.
LDP's tough secretary-general, reminded Mr Mori that he was prime minister 24 hours a day and whenever he opened his mouth he did so as the leader of the country.
At their summit last month in Okinawa, the richest nations endorsed a call from Yoshio Mori, Japan's prime minister, for a new round.
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To general surprise, Junichiro Koizumi, billed as a reformer and a maverick, became prime minister of Japan after his hapless predecessor, Yoshiro Mori, resigned.
Party elders including Mr Mori, who was a disastrous prime minister himself and who has now twice anointed disastrous leaders, will now probably favour an unruffled succession in favour of Mr Aso.
The following day, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secretary-general, Mori Yoshiro, also 62, was elected prime minister by the Diet, securing 335 of 488 valid lower house votes.
Yoshiro Mori, Japan's much-abused prime minister, has been less fortunate.
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