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	Japan general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan held a nationwide election to the House of Representatives, the more powerful lower house of the National Diet, on 11 September 2005, about two years before the end of the term taken from the last election in 2003.
		In the previous lower-house election (2003) and upper-house election (2004), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had performed handsomely, while the LDP was barely able to keep its majorities with a reduced number of seats despite the popularity of Koizumi.
		Election analysts ascribed the poor performance of the LDP to Koizumi's reforms that have eroded its traditional supporters such as farmers, "Mom-Pop" shop owners and construction workers, because the reforms, including deregulation and tax cuts, were tuned to help big global corporations like Toyota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_general_election,_2005 (2086 words)

	Japan general election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last general election of the Lower House took place in June 2000 when Yoshiro Mori was Prime Minister.
		Poll data collected early in the election season and in exit polls highlight the role of swing voters, who accounted for 18% of the total vote.
		During the campaign, the DPJ produced an itemized policy manifesto — a first in post-war Japanese elections — and publicized a "shadow cabinet" (with Naoto Kan as Prime Minister), which is usually created by political parties during election season in the United Kingdom, for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_general_election,_2003 (947 words)

	Politics of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Japan no longer officially has the traditional federal system, and its 47 prefectures depend on the central government for most funding.
		On October 11, 2003, the Prime Minister Koizumi dissolved the lower house after he was re-elected as the president of the LDP.
		Japan was occupied by the Allies from the end of World War II in 1945 until 1952.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Politics_of_Japan (1666 words)

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		Japan: The trial of Shoko Asahara, accused of involvement in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, ends in Japan with final statements from lawyers.
		Northwest Territories general election, 2003: The writ is dropped for the 19 electoral districts of the Northwest Territories to elect members to the 15th session of the consensus government.
		Politics: General Wesley Clark has made a bold political move and arguably a risky one by suggesting that members of the Bush administration may be liable to criminal charges in connection with the Iraq war.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/o/oc/october_2003.html (8361 words)

	Japan (08/05)
		Manchukuo was dissolved, and Manchuria was returned to China; Japan renounced all claims to Formosa; Korea was occupied and divided by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles were occupied by the U.S.S.R.; and the U.S. became the sole administering authority of the Ryukyu, Bonin, and Volcano Islands.
		Japan’s economic engagement with its neighbors is increasing, as evidenced by the conclusion of an EPA with Singapore, and its ongoing negotiations for EPAs with Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
		U.S. Consulates General are in Osaka, Sapporo, and Naha, and Consulates are in Fukuoka and Nagoya.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/4142.htm (5691 words)

	Yellowworld Forums - World's Oldest Woman Turns 116 in Japan
		Born in 1887, when Japan was still in the throes of its conversion from samurai rule to modern democracy, Kamato Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman — Maude Farris-Luse — died last March at the age of 115.
		She was raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, and grew up tending to cows and farming potatoes.
		Japan's life expectancy — 85.23 years for women and 78.32 for men in 2002 — is the longest in the world.
	www.yellowworld.org /forums/showthread.php?t=9464 (796 words)

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		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of Representatives following premature dissolution of this body on 8 August 2005.
		Before and at the beginning of the election campaign, he repeated that the privatization of the postal system was not the cutting issue at the election.
		At this election, the number of women elected reached a record-high of 43: 26 for the LDP, seven for the DPJ, four for the Komei Party, two each for the SDPJ and the JCP, and two independents.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2161_E.htm (1088 words)

	Cambodia
		The Commissioner General of the National Police stressed on several occasions the preparedness of police forces to suppress any violent demonstrations aimed at protesting the results of the National Assembly elections; however, during the campaign period itself, supporters of both the ruling and opposition parties took part in rallies and street parades throughout the country.
		The Government generally cooperated with human rights workers in performing their investigations; however, during the year, there were several reports of poor cooperation or intimidation by local authorities throughout the country.
		Police intervention generally was minimal and restrained, even in cases in which striking workers caused property damage; however, anti-riot police shot and killed a garment worker and injured three others during a strike in June.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27766.htm (13362 words)

	Articles - Politics of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Japan has a parliamentary government, which consists of three branches: the administration(executive) branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch.
		The first postwar elections were held in 1946 (women were given the franchise for the first time), and the Liberal Party's vice president, Yoshida Shigeru (1878-1967), became prime minister.
		The election was scheduled for September 11, 2005, and was won in a landslide by Junichiro Koizumi's LDP.
	lastring.com /articles/Politics_of_Japan?mySession=69c1161d6ba7cc110... (2210 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Japanese Japan Constitution, drawn up on May 3, 1947 includes a bill of rights similar to the United States Bill of Rights, and the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review.
		The LDP has been in power almost continuously since 1955, when it was formed as a merger of early postwar Japan's two conservative parties, the Liberal Party of Japan, Occupation, and the Democrat Party of Japan, Occupation.
		The party is characterized as being very conservative on matters,and unopposed to the war in Iraq.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Politics_of_Japan (1681 words)

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		With five months to go before Taiwan's presidential election, the campaign is heating up between the incumbent, President Chen Shui-bian, leader of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, and the opposition Kuomintang's (KMT) Lien Chan.
		A parliamentary election is expected to be held at the end of 2004, and the party in power stands to enjoy an advantage to carry that vote as well.
		In the 2000 presidential election that pitted Soong, Chen and Lien, Soong won 36 percent of the votes, coming in second after Chen.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /News/2003/JT-241003.htm (1002 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia.
		Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch.
		Japan's huge government debt, which totals more than 160% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ja.html (1477 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The present New Clean Government Party was formed as a result of a merger between the Clean Government Party (Former) and the New Peace Party on November 7, 1998.
		The New Komeito Party had a predessesor with a similar (though more to the left and very radical) ideology, but the current conservative, more moderate, party was formed in 1998, as noted, between a merger of the Clean Government Party and the New Peace Party.
		In the 2003 and 2004 Dietary elections, the New Komeito Party did well, and is the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's junior coalition partner.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=New_Clean_Government_Party (430 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: Saitama by-election to start Thurs. ahead of general election
		Campaigning for a House of Councillors by-election in Saitama Prefecture on Oct. 26 will start Thursday and the poll is considered to serve as a prelude to an expected general election for the House of Representatives in November.
		Koizumi is expected to dissolve the House of Representatives on Friday and call for a general election Nov. 9, the first one since he took office in April 2001.
		The by-election in Saitama Prefecture will also be a key test of the DPJ, which was strengthened through a merger with the smaller opposition Liberal Party in late September.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2003_Oct_14/ai_108878012 (444 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: LEAD: Tanaka voices willingness to run in general election
		Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka expressed willingness to run in a general election expected in November but refrained from announcing her candidacy Sunday, saying she needs to confirm if she would be expelled from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for doing so.
		She became Japan's first female foreign minister in April 2001 in Koizumi's first cabinet but was sacked nine months later after she tried to shake up the Foreign Ministry following a series of corruption scandals and lost a prolonged battle with ministry bureaucrats.
		Koizumi, recently reelected LDP president, is expected to dissolve the lower house later this month and hold a general election in November.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2003_Oct_6/ai_108553694 (563 words)

	CNN.com - Koizumi weakened in Japan election - Nov. 9, 2003
		It was Koizumi's first trial in general elections since becoming prime minister more than two years ago, and he had touted the race as a test of public support for his party.
		Voter turnout was about 52 percent, down from the last lower house elections in 2000, when the LDP cruised to victory on a voting rate of 62.5 percent.
		Other hot topics were amending Japan's pacifist constitution to give the military more flexibility in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era of terrorism, and reforming public pensions -- a big concern in a country with one of world's fastest graying societies.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/08/japan.vote.ap (783 words)

	cbc.ca
		Japan's opposing Democratic Party made impressive gains in Sunday's general election, but the ruling three-party coalition won the majority of seats, reported NHK, the country's public broadcaster.
		Final election results are not expected until Monday, but NHK reports that Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which entered the election with 247 seats, dropped down to 237 while the opposition Democrats went up 40 seats, to 177.
		During the campaign the Democrats voiced their opposition to Japan's involvement in Iraq, while Koizumi said he supported sending Japanese soldiers to assist the coalition in Iraq.
	cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2003/11/09/election_tokyo031109 (190 words)

	Internet Society (ISOC) 2003 BOT Election - ISOC Members Only
		It is intended that the committee's selection process will result in at least 4 candidates for election as nominated candidates by the Organizational Members and at least 2 candidates for election as nominated candidates by the Chapters.
		Also on 7 March a petition period begins and additional candidates for election to the Board of Trustees may be nominated by the Organizational membership and Chapters by petition.
		The Election Committee will send the ballots out to ISOC voting Organizational Members and Chapters on or before 22 April 2003 and the Election Day is set to be 20 May 2003.
	www.isoc.org /members/vote/2003election/index.shtml (580 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Japan - Koizumi's Second Act
		Although he may never recapture the charmed aura he possessed in 2001 as Japan's anointed savior, he still retains an almost Clintonian ability to seduce a crowd, a gift for compelling listeners to drink in and—sometimes despite themselves—believe his every word.
		During their speeches, his opponents trot out the same old whistle-stop bromides: Japan needs a more self-sufficient food supply, increased government spending is the only solution to the nation's economic woes, most foreigners are either criminals or vultures.
		Japan's Prime Minister is under fire in the Diet for his finance chief's radical bank reform plan
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501030922/story.html (921 words)

	Japanese Press Review
		Japan's general election, which took place on Sunday, had, as the Wall Street Journal Asia noted, "an unusual twist: there was an actual contest for power".
		He was, however, able to bolster the LDP's position yesterday by persuading three independents to join and brokering a merger between the LDP and the New Conservative Party, which took the LDP back up to 244 seats.
		In the Japan Times, Hugh Cortazzi, a former British ambassador to Japan, was moved to compare the situation with the recent transformation of the British Conservative party into a credible opposition.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/11-10-2003-47455.asp (345 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Interview with Naoto Kan
		Reform is necessary in Japan today, and the two parties share this basic view.
		Perhaps we have to change the situation so that in the event that the United Nations calls upon Japan to engage in military activities abroad, we'd be able to do that.
		If North Korea accepts these two conditions, I think Japan, the U.S. and the Republic of Korea could promise that there would be no use of force by the U.S. in order to bring about a change of administration.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501030922/interview.html (622 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Japan has relied on government bond issues to make up for falling tax revenues, turning into one of the world's most indebted countries.
		But Japan's general election Sept. 11 is about a deeper historical reconciliation -- the effort to resolve differences between the country's cultural and behavioral preferences, and the organizational practices put in place by the Occupation forces after 1945.
		Turnout is expected to surpass the 60% of the last general elections in 2003.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=japan (5703 words)

	DDN Communities: Access (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As part of the self-learning initiative, initiated in 2003, many students were taught Internet technologies through collaboration with one another, 3rd party books, MIT’s Open Courseware, and the curriculum from the MIT lectures many of their peers attended.
		The organization known as Generations on Line is trying to change that, promoting technology uses that can enhance the quality of life of seniors.
		It is time to provide the models that will change the general perception of broadband from a technology of speed for Internet browsing to a technology that delivers "critical capacity" for the health of our public information infrastructure.
	www.digitaldivide.net /community/access (5443 words)

	Yellowworld Forums - Tear Gas Thrown at Japan Baseball Game
		TOKYO - Police are investigating the use of tear gas by a spectator that resulted in the hospitalization of dozens of baseball fans in central Japan.
		Thirty-one people were treated for sore eyes and irritated throats after the fan released tear gas during a brawl that broke out in the bleachers after the game Wednesday night in the city of Gifu, police said.
		Of course there's rivalry between S Corea and Japan, due to WWII and the forced labor, sex slave and biological experiment issues that are not admitted by the Japanese government.
	www.yellowworld.org /forums/showthread.php?t=7778 (1050 words)

	Debian -- Debian Project Leader Elections 2003
		Additionally, the list of people for the election is available, complete with tokens so that the voters may check their votes were tallied.
		The winner of the election is Martin Michlmayr.
		I would like to thank Moshe Zadka, Branden Robinson and Bdale Garbee for their service to the project, for standing for the post of project leader, and for offering the developers a strong and viable group of candidates.
	www.debian.org /vote/2003/vote_0001 (395 words)

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