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Blog Source: fruitsandvotes.com
| 3 months ago
The LDP also lost some big names in single-seat races, including former Foreign Ministers Nobutaka Machimura and Taro Nakayama, as well as Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and former Finance chief Shoichi Nakagawa. ...
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Blog Source: blogs.reuters.com
| 3 months ago
LDP losers in Hokkaido included former foreign minister Nobutaka Machimura, head of the party's largest faction, Tsutomu Takebe, a Koizumi Cabinet loyalist, and former finance Shoichi Nakagawa, whose family had represented the middle of ...
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Blog Source: overoften.wordpress.com
| 3 months ago
Without these PR votes, the LDP would also have lost former defense minister Yuriko Koike, finance minister Kaoru Yosano, former finance minister Bummei Ibuki, former foreign minister Nobutaka Machimura, and the heavyweight former LDP ...
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Blog Source: www.pressrun.net
| 3 months ago
They include such LDP veterans as Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura. Komeito leader Akihiro Ota and party Secretary General Kazuo Kitagawa also ...
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Blog Source: dearkitty.blogsome.com
| 3 months ago
Five cabinet ministers, including Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, and party heavyweights such as General Council Chairman Takashi Sasagawa and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura lost their single-seat constituencies. ...
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Blog Source: two--plus--two.blogspot.com
| 3 months ago
The depth of the LDP's defeat is shown by the ouster of half of the powerful faction heads and party stalwarts Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, ...
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Blog Source: www.takaokalaw.com
| 3 months ago
The losers included former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, former LDP Vice President Taku Yamasaki, former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa and ex-Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura. Read the full story. « Typhoon draws bead on Kanto, ...
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Blog Source: search.japantimes.co.jp
| 9 months ago
The Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction decided Thursday to unify solely under former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura in an attempt to muzzle outspoken faction manager Hidenao Nakagawa and keep him in line with its ...
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Blog Source: two--plus--two.blogspot.com
| 9 months ago
Professor Joseph Nye (right) meets India's Minister for External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee, at a meeting in New Delhi. US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name the influential academic Nye, best known for coining the phrase "soft power ," as
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Blog Source: search.japantimes.co.jp
| 10 months ago
Nakagawa relented Thursday after the wording was softened, but he has completely isolated himself from his faction, which is led by ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura. So far, it appears Aso has managed to avoid the ...