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Shiga gov. announces split of antinuclear Tomorrow Party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (L) announces at a press conference in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Dec. 28, 2012, a split of the antinuclear Tomorrow Party of Japan into two groups only a month after its inception. Powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa (R) sat next to her at the conference. Kada will leave the party with House of Representatives member Tomoko Abe to form a separate party, while party members supporting Ozawa will take the party, which is renamed "Seikatsu no To" (Party of People's Lives).

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Shiga gov. announces split of antinuclear Tomorrow Party

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (L) and powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa hold a press conference in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Dec. 28, 2012, to announce a split of the antinuclear Tomorrow Party of Japan into two groups only a month after its inception. Kada will leave the party with House of Representatives member Tomoko Abe to form a separate party, while party members supporting Ozawa will take the party, which is renamed "Seikatsu no To" (Party of People's Lives).

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Tomorrow Party of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows (from L to R) Tetsunari Iida, acting chief of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, Tomoko Abe, deputy chief of the party, Yukiko Kada, party chief and governor of Shiga Prefecture, and Yuko Mori, deputy chief of the party, during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2012. The party, bidding to become an umbrella force for antinuclear candidates in the Dec. 16 general election, vowed in its campaign platform to phase out atomic power plants in 10 years.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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DPJ set to forge broad policy accord on coalition with 2 allies

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Naoshima (C), chief of the Democratic Party of Japan's Policy Research Committee, holds talks with his counterparts from the Social Democratic Party, Tomoko Abe (L), and People's New Party, Shozaburo Jimi, at the Diet building on Sept. 8, 2009 in a bid to reach a broad agreement on forming a tripartite coalition

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DPJ moving closer to assuming power as coalition talks proceed

TOKYO, Japan - Three policy chiefs -- (L to R) Tomoko Abe of the Social Democratic Party, Masayuki Naoshima of the Democratic Party of Japan, and Shozaburo Jimi of the People's New Party -- sit for talks about forming a coalition government of the three parties.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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DPJ set to forge broad policy accord on coalition with 2 allies

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Naoshima (C), chief of the Democratic Party of Japan's Policy Research Committee, holds talks with his counterparts from the Social Democratic Party, Tomoko Abe (L), and People's New Party, Shozaburo Jimi, at the Diet building on Sept. 8, 2009 in a bid to reach a broad agreement on forming a tripartite coalition (Kyodo)

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DPJ moving closer to assuming power as coalition talks proceed

TOKYO, Japan - Three policy chiefs -- (L to R) Tomoko Abe of the Social Democratic Party, Masayuki Naoshima of the Democratic Party of Japan, and Shozaburo Jimi of the People's New Party -- sit for talks about forming a coalition government of the three parties. (Kyodo)