CHISINAU (Reuters) - The pro-Western bloc that has run Moldova since 2009 appeared headed for collapse on Wednesday after Prime Minister Vlad Filat denounced the founding coalition agreement and accused his allies of corruption. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Algeria hostage crisis has given ammunition to Japanese conservatives keen to ease limits on military actions abroad, but Japan's post-World War Two pacifist legacy is forcing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to tread carefully. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Wednesday that he will continue to communicate closely with the government on policy, after a meeting of a top government panel with legal authority to map out long-term fiscal and economic policies. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his cabinet line-up on Wednesday after being voted in by parliament. Abe, a security hawk who quit as premier in 2007 after a troubled year in office, has made beating deflation and taming a strong yen with drastic monetary policy an Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Incoming Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to pick policy veteran Toshimitsu Motegi as trade minister, who will also take charge of energy and other key economic policies, media reported on Tuesday. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will need an extra budget that provides for significant fresh spending to help the economy, the policy chief for the country's incoming prime minister said on Thursday. Full story
A group of lawmakers including Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Hidehisa Otsuji , Japan Restoration Party member Takeo Hiranuma and LDP member Sanae Takaichi are led by a shinto priest as they visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 23, 2013. REUTERS
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles during the ruling Liberal Democratic Party annual convention in Tokyo March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he delivers his speech during the ruling Liberal Democratic Party annual convention in Tokyo March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during the ruling Liberal Democratic Party annual convention in Tokyo March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Japan's then main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's leader and former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to voters atop a campaign van at Akihabara electronics store district in Tokyo, in this file picture taken December 15, 2012, on the last election campaign day ahead of the general election. A
