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Asō Cabinet
The Asō Cabinet governed Japan from 24 September 2008 to 16 September 2009 by Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister Tarō Asō after his predecessor Yasuo Fukuda resigned. The cabinet resigned after a year in office following the defeat in the 2009 Japanese general election, 2009 general election, which the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, Democratic Party won a majority in the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives. History Formation The 170th National Diet elected the new Prime Minister on 24 September 2008. As no single party controlled both the houses, the parliament failed to come up with a single candidate: the lower chamber House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives nominated Tarō Asō, Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party, while the upper chamber House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors chose Ichirō Ozawa, Leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, Democratic Party. With the supre ...
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2008 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Presidential Election
The 2008 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 22 September 2008 after the incumbent President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), party leader and Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda announced that he would resign on 1 September 2008, only 11 months after taking office on 25 September 2007 following a 2007 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, leadership election on 23 September 2007. Tarō Asō, who had lost to Shinzo Abe in the 2006 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, 2006 leadership election and then again lost to Fukuda in 2007, was widely seen as the frontrunner to replace him, and announced on 2 September 2008 he was ready to take over as party leader. Aso won the leadership election against four opponents, receiving 67% of the vote."Aso elected LDP head"
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Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet
The Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda from September 2007 to September 2008. The government was a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito and controlled both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet. Background Election of the prime minister Lists of ministers R = Member of the House of Representatives C = Member of the House of Councillors The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers. If the t ... Cabinet Reshuffled cabinet References External links Pages at the Kantei (English website): Yasuo Fukuda Administration {{DEFAULTSORT:Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet Cabinet of Japan 2007 establishments in Japan 2008 disestablishments in Japan Cabinets established in 2007 Cabinets d ...
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Minister For Internal Affairs And Communications
The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council, and is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. The current minister is Seiichiro Murakami, who took office on October 1, 2024. List of ministers for internal affairs and communications (2001–) References {{Ministries of Japan Government ministers of Japan, * ...
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日本テレビ放送網
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as (NTV) or Nippon TV, is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned and operated by the , a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company Nippon Television's studios are located in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and its transmitters are located in the Tokyo Skytree. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, it is also the first commercial TV station in Japan, and it has been broadcasting on Channel 4 since its inception. Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for news programs) and NNS (for non-news programs). Except for Okinawa Prefecture, these two networks cover the whole of Japan. Nippon Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo'' and is the first commercial broadcaster in Asia. Nippon Television Holdings is partially owned by the Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings ...
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Minister Of Finance (Japan)
The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Finance (Japan), Ministry of Finance. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council and is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. Until 2001, the Japanese title was . Both the current and previous title are translated as "Minister of Finance". The current minister is Katsunobu Katō, who took office on 1 October 2024. List of ministers Prewar (1900–1946) Postwar (1946–present) References

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Shōichi Nakagawa
was a Japanese conservative politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who served as Minister of Finance from 24 September 2008 to 17 February 2009. He previously held the posts of Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi. He was regarded as one of Japan's most attractive public figures. On 4 October 2009, he was found dead in his Tokyo apartment. The cause of his death is yet to be determined; although no suicide note was found, there was also no indication of foul play. Early life and education Nakagawa was born in Tokyo on 19 July 1953 and attended Azabu High School, graduated from the law faculty of the University of Tokyo and entered the Industrial Bank of Japan in 1978. His father, Ichiro Nakagawa, was a prominent Hokkaidō politician who committed suicide in 1983. The younger Nakagawa was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives in the same year. Political career In 1 ...
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毎日新聞
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called , and publishes a bilingual news magazine, ''Mainichi Weekly''. It also publishes paperbacks, books and other magazines, including a weekly news magazine, ''Sunday Mainichi''. It is one of the four national newspapers in Japan; the other three are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' and the ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. The ''Sankei Shimbun'' and the ''Chunichi Shimbun'' are not currently in the position of a national newspaper despite a large circulation for both. History The history of the ''Mainichi Shimbun'' began with the founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The ''Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun'' was founded first, in 1872. The ''Mainichi'' claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper with its 136-year history. The Osaka ''Ma ...
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2008 Financial Crisis
The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis (GFC), was a major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States. The causes of the 2008 crisis included excessive speculation on housing values by both homeowners and financial institutions that led to the 2000s United States housing bubble, exacerbated by predatory lending for subprime mortgages and deficiencies in regulation. Cash out refinancings had fueled an increase in consumption that could no longer be sustained when home prices declined. The first phase of the crisis was the subprime mortgage crisis, which began in early 2007, as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) tied to U.S. real estate, and a vast web of Derivative (finance), derivatives linked to those MBS, collapsed in value. A liquidity crisis spread to global institutions by mid-2007 and climaxed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, which triggered a stock market crash and bank runs in several countries. The crisis ...
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Nikkei 225
The Nikkei 225, or , more commonly called the ''Nikkei'' or the ''Nikkei index'' (), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It is a price-weighted index, operating in the Japanese yen, Japanese Yen (JP¥), and its components are reviewed twice a year. The Nikkei 225 measures the performance of 225 highly capitalised and liquid publicly owned companies in Japan from a wide array of industry sectors. Since 2017, the index is calculated every five seconds. It was originally launched by the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1950, and was taken over by the ''The Nikkei, Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' (''The Nikkei'') newspaper in 1950 in Japan, 1970, when the Tokyo Exchange switched to the TOPIX, Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX), which is weighed by market capitalisation rather than stock prices. History The Nikkei 225 began to be calculated on 7 September 1950, retroactively calculated back to 16 May 1949, when the average price of its component stocks was 176.21 yen. Since July ...
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