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	People's Weekly World - Japan’s Koizumi wins election victory
		According to Japanese television, the DPJ suffered a rout in the election, obtaining only 113 seats, slumping from the 177 seats it achieved in the last general election in 2003.
		Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) gained a election victory in the Sept. 11 general election by capturing 296 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament.
		During the election campaign, the JCP’s candidates said the real aim of the postal privatization bills was to destroy public postal services and to provide Japanese and U.S. banking interests with new markets to make more profits.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/7719/1/286 (471 words)

	Elections in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Summary of the 11 September 2005 Japanese House of Representatives election results
		Elections are supervised by election committees at each administrative level under the general direction of the Central Election Administration Committee.
		Due to the proportional voting system it is unlikely that Japan will develop an exclusive two-party system, but there is speculation that Japanese political diversity is declining.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_general_election (673 words)

	Japan PM seen headed for comfortable election win - Turkish Daily News
		Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling coalition looks set to win a comfortable majority in today's general election, a fresh batch of surveys showed, the latest sign voters back his agenda to reduce government's role in the world's second-biggest economy.
		Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling coalition looks set to win a comfortable majority in today's general election, a fresh batch of surveys showed, the latest sign voters back his agenda to
		The maverick, wavy-haired Koizumi, 63, called the election after LDP rebels helped the opposition to defeat bills to privatize the postal system, a financial giant with $3 trillion in assets often criticized for funding wasteful public works projects popular with LDP supporters in the hinterlands
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=22959 (221 words)

	Koizumi calls snap election after setback over Japan Post privatisation
		For generations, Japan Post has functioned as the primary savings bank and insurance broker for millions of Japanese and as the mechanism for channelling these private savings to the state.
		Koizumi intends to use the election primarily to carry out a purge of his internal party opponents.
		The September 11 election is a major political gamble for Koizumi.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/aug2005/japa-a12.shtml (1334 words)

	Japan’s first presidential election Andrew Stevens - openDemocracy
		Japan’s decisive 2005 general election is proving no different, with the spectacular win of Junichiro Koiziumi being presented as the triumph of a samurai warrior.
		Japan’s 2005 election was an event of sophisticated stage-management, with Koizumi using the snap poll to present himself as the only leader capable of making the necessary break with the past to dynamise the nation’s sluggish economy.
		The election may also suggest that the health of Japanese democracy is vulnerable to the media-savvy use of glamorous women chosen to front an electoral machine designed to preserve in power an ossified collection of elderly males and their factional interests.
	www.opendemocracy.net /globalization-institutions_government/japan_2824.jsp (1642 words)

	Post-Election Changes Boost Push for a More Assertive Japan -- 09/19/2005
		Following its Sept. 11 election defeat, the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) chose a new leader at the weekend, a young conservative whose views on the constitution and the role of Japanese forces abroad approach those of the prime minister.
		"Certainly the outcome of this election, with a resurgence of support for the LDP, moves the process in the direction of revising the constitution," he said last week.
		Japan's post-World War II constitution restricts deployments of troops abroad, and also prohibits what is known officially as the Self-Defense Forces from providing support for the U.S. military in the event of attacks on American assets based in Japan.
	www.cnsnews.com /news/viewstory.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200509\FOR20050919a.html (935 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		In a Japanese general election, 300 constituencies are directly elected and a further 180 are decided in proportional regional blocks.
		In the 2003 general election, the LDP and DPJ were fairly evenly matched in several swing Hokkaido single-seat constituencies, while the DPJ held an advantage in the Hokkaido proportional block.
		As the battle for Japan's crucial September 11 Lower House election intensifies, the outcome remains unclear.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GH23Dh02.html (1781 words)

	Japan : Junichiro Koizumi triumphed in general election :: moroccoTimes.com
		Japan : Junichiro Koizumi triumphed in general election :: moroccoTimes.com
		Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has triumphed in yesterday's general election.
		The Japanese Prime Minister got to work on his mission to achieve economic and political progress in Japan.
	www.moroccotimes.com /news/article.asp?id=9617 (383 words)

	BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Japan's 2005 election: voters' panel
		In the run-up to Japan's general election on 11 September, the BBC News website spoke to six Japanese voters about the issues that matter to them and how they intend to vote.
		Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called the snap election after parliament rejected his plans to privatise Japan's postal system.
		Mr Koizumi says the poll will allow the public to give their opinion of his reform agenda.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4216756.stm (199 words)

	Embassy of Japan
		Meeting of the Ambassador, Consuls-General of Japan and Japanese American Leaders
		Registration Procedure at lodging facilities in Japan to be changed as of April 1, 2005
		Japan, the United Nations and the International Community
	www.us.emb-japan.go.jp /english/html (714 words)

	CBC News: Japanese PM wins landslide victory in general election
		Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a stunning landslide victory in Sunday's general election giving him a broad mandate to go ahead with his plans to privatize Japan's postal system, a financial services giant that includes a postal savings bank and insurance business with combined assets of $3 trillion.
		Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles as he places a red rosettes on the names of victorious candidates as he observes the ballot counting for the parliamentary lower house elections at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 11.
		The 63-year-old Koizuma is described as a media-savvy maverick with a knack for punchy slogans and a penchant for hard rock and Elvis.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/09/11/Japan-election-0911.html (323 words)

	Japan’s first presidential election Andrew Stevens - openDemocracy
		Japan’s decisive 2005 general election is proving no different, with the spectacular win of Junichiro Koiziumi being presented as the triumph of a samurai warrior.
		Japan’s 2005 election was an event of sophisticated stage-management, with Koizumi using the snap poll to present himself as the only leader capable of making the necessary break with the past to dynamise the nation’s sluggish economy.
		The election may also suggest that the health of Japanese democracy is vulnerable to the media-savvy use of glamorous women chosen to front an electoral machine designed to preserve in power an ossified collection of elderly males and their factional interests.
	opendemocracy.net /globalization-institutions_government/japan_2824.jsp (1642 words)

	Elections in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Summary of the 11 September 2005 Japanese House of Representatives election results
		Elections are supervised by election committees at each administrative level under the general direction of the Central Election Administration Committee.
		Due to the proportional voting system it is unlikely that Japan will develop an exclusive two-party system, but there is speculation that Japanese political diversity is declining.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Japan (673 words)

	John Manning - Japanese Elections - Spectrezine 8th November 2003
		The Koizumi government of Japan and its would-be twin same-policy "opponent", the merged Democratic-Liberal party, both obeying the Bush administration's demand to join Bush's war to rule the world, face determined opposition in Japan's general election this coming Sunday, November 9.
		Campaigning for the House of Representatives general election officially started on October 28.
		The LDP election platform states that the party in 2005 will mark a major step toward a constitutional revision.
	www.spectrezine.org /war/Manning4.htm (1220 words)

	Embassy of Japan
		Registration Procedure at lodging facilities in Japan to be changed as of April 1, 2005
		Meeting of the Ambassador, Consuls-General of Japan and Japanese American Leaders
		Japan, the United Nations and the International Community
	www.us.emb-japan.go.jp /english/html (643 words)

	2005 Deaths
		General Election 2005: Anger at death call.(News) (The Mirror (London, England))
		General Election 2005: Poll hold up after death.(News) (The Mirror (London, England))
		2005 Election Special: IRAQ DEATH TOLL.(News) (Sunday Mirror (London, England))
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0930014.html (199 words)

	Articles - April 2005
		Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan meets with Communist Party of China Secretary-General Hu Jintao in the highest level contact between leaders of the two parties since the meeting of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in August 1945 at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
		Togolese presidential election, 2005 : Three killed, amid claims of fraud in tense election in Togo to choose the successor to President GnassingbÃ© EyadÃ©ma, hardline ruler for 38 years, from amongst Faure GnassingbÃ©, the 39-year-old son of the late leader, and several challengers led by Emmanuel Bob-Akitani.
		Alassane Ouattara is allowed to run for Presidential election in CÃ´te d'Ivoire.
	kamero.net /articles/April_2005?mySession=0585d5fcacfde34b97f4711cdb... (199 words)

	John Manning - Japanese Elections - Spectrezine 8th November 2003
		The Japanese Communist Party Central Committee published the following appeal calling on the people to vote for the JCP in the general election of the House of Representatives announced that day.
		The LDP election platform states that the party in 2005 will mark a major step toward a constitutional revision.
		The JCP aims at building an economy in which large corporations are asked to fulfil their corporate social responsibility.
	www.spectrezine.org /war/Manning4.htm (1220 words)

	As China rises, so does Japanese nationalism -DAWN - International; November 18, 2005
		When Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese prime minister, secured his dramatic and overwhelming victory in September’s general election, its significance was generally interpreted as a victory for his programme of privatization and deregulation.
		The causes of growing Japanese nationalism may be diverse, but they are increasingly driven by one overwhelming factor: a fear of the rise of China.
		The rise of Japanese nationalism should be seen alongside another trend: the increasingly close links between Japan and the US.
	www.dawn.com /2005/11/18/int8.htm (1128 words)

	Macau (12/04)
		The next election will be held in 2005.
		Macau enjoyed a brief period of economic prosperity during World War II as the only neutral port in South China, after the Japanese occupied Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong.
		Macau has ten higher education institutions, including the University of Macau; 85.5% of the University of Macau’s 4,708 students are local and 14.5% from overseas.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/7066.htm (1128 words)

	Free Democratic Party (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the snap 2005 general election the party received 9.8%, a surprise jump not predicted in prior opinion polls.
		The party took 6.2% of the vote and returned 43 deputies to the Bundestag in the general election of 1998.
		Mrs Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was elected as vice-leader of the parliamentary party after federal elections 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_of_Germany (543 words)

	Sudoku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sudoku became particularly prominent in newspapers soon after the 2005 general election leading some commentators to suggest that it was filling the gaps previously occupied by election coverage.
		House was clearly seen working on a Sudoku puzzle on his office computer in one scene of the December 13, 2005 episode of House, M. Sudoku is supposedly now banned on the studio set due to the cast constantly playing it.
		The inverse problem—the fewest givens that render a solution unique—is unsolved, although the lowest number yet found for the standard variation without a symmetry constraint is 17, a number of which have been found by Japanese puzzle enthusiasts [11] [12], and 18 with the givens in rotationally symmetric cells.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudoku (5124 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sudoku
		Sudoku became particularly prominent in newspapers soon after the 2005 general election leading some commentators to suggest that it was filling the gaps previously occupied by election coverage.
		In Malaysia, Sudoku was introduced in the Malaysian newspaper The Star on 20 June 2005.
		Nikoli is also a village on the island of Lefkada, see Nikoli, Greece Nikoli (ニコリ) is a Japanese publisher that specializes in puzzles and is also the nickname of the quarterly magazine issued by the company (the full name being Puzzle Communication Nikoli).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sudoku (5124 words)

	Korea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Relations with Japan were strained in early 2005 over the ownership of the Liancourt Rocks (a perennial source of friction) and over Japanese school history textbooks that downplayed Japan& actions during World War II.
		Labor unrest and general dissatisfaction with the government, however, led South Korean leaders to draw up a new constitution in 1987, which mandated popular election of the president and a reduction of the presidential term to five years.
		A political party funding scandal in 2003 implicated the main South Korean parties and many businesses, but it was overshadowed in early 2004 by the impeachment of the president over a relatively minor election law violation, which involved his public support for the new Uri party (the president is required be politically neutral).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ko/Korea.html (4535 words)

	Revision of Japan's pacifist constitution no longer taboo - Jun. 22, 2004
		Last November, during campaigning for the general election that returned him to power, Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party committed itself to drawing up an amendment to the constitution by November 2005 when the party marks its 50th anniversary.
		Opinion polls by major newspapers to mark Constitution Day last month all agreed that for the first time in half a century a majority of Japanese were in favour of revising the 1947 Constitution imposed by the Americans under the Allied Occupation at the end of World War II.
		The liveliest debate concerns Article Nine of the constitution, which states that "the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation", and bans the threat or use of force in settling international disputes.
	www.inq7.net /brk/2004/jun/22/brkafp_2-1.htm (821 words)

	jolt.co.uk public forums - Yamato Never Dies (Closed AMW RP)
		An inferno was erupting in the district, as a general panic ensued, with people fleeing in every direction.
		He added, "The difference between us is that Japanese yakuza think of long-term business relationships, but the Chinese mafia thinks just of the short-term.
		30-03-2005, 8:11 AM In the northwest of Tokyo is the Kabukicho district, one of Asia's largest "entertainment zones." It is a cluttered neighborhood of narrow alleys, neon signs, beckoning touts and raucous laughter.
	forums.jolt.co.uk /archive/index.php/t-407236.html (821 words)

	sapporo
		SAPPORO (Kyodo) Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Muneo Suzuki plans to announce the establishment of a new party in Hokkaido as early as Thursday to field several candidates, including himself, in the Sept. 11 general election, according to sources close to him.
		Study in the U.S. - Travel in the U.S. - Customs Sapporo American Center Go to Japanese The Sapporo American Center (SAC) is part of the Public Affairs Section of the American Consulate General Sapporo.
		Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, northernmost island of Japan Moerenuma Park - Grand Opening on July 1st, 2005 andquot;Play Mountainandquot; in Moerenuma Park.
	sapporo.networklive.org (821 words)

	NZ Greens Conservation and Environment Campaign
		The Green Co-Leader launched her Party's Environment Policy for the 2005 General Election at a contaminated stream in the Hutt Valley.
		The Greens are urging all New Zealanders to put pen to paper and write to the Japanese Embassy in Wellington to express disgust at these plans to subject magnificent animals to a bloody, painful and prolonged death.
		National and Act MPs are saying it’s all gorse, but in fact only one of the valleys has such scrub, most of the area is a combination of vigorous and healthy remnant and young kahikatea, matai and rimu forest, including the Card Creek Ecological Area," said Jeanette.
	www.greens.org.nz /campaigns/conservation (821 words)

	Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Presidential and general election is scheduled for November 27, 2005.
		Asians in Honduras are mostly of Chinese and Japanese descent.
		The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in western Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honduras (1772 words)

	ICA General Assembly Cartagena, 2005 - Election
		Shugo OGURA, Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union (JCCU), Japan
	www.coop.org /calendar/ga2005/election-results.html (123 words)

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