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Byline: Christian Caryl and Hideko Takayama, Alan Isenberg, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenbal, Mary Carmichael, Vibhuti Patel, Jennifer Barrett, Nicki Gostin
Japan: Send in the Hawks
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's announcement last week that he had decided to shake up his cabinet caught Japan's political class off guard--and set the country on a potentially risky foreign-policy course. Shinzo Abe, a Liberal Democratic Party stalwart who has made a name for himself as a harsh conservative critic of North Korea, was named the government's chief policy spokesman--marking him as the leading contender to succeed Koizumi next fall. Despite Abe's stature ...