News on Taro Aso

Nuke-free world urged on Hiroshima bomb anniversary

2010-04-16T10:57:55Z

Japan marked 64 years Thursday since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack with a call for a nuclear-weapons-free world, a goal backed by US President Barack Obama.

The mayor of Hiroshima, the city where 140,000 people died from the blast, renewed his call for the abolition of what he said are 24,000 remaining nuclea...

Japan, S.Korea in united stance against N.Korea

2010-06-25T16:46:46Z

South Korea and Japan "will never tolerate" a nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said on Sunday after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso.

Lee and Aso agreed to press North Korea to abandon its...

Obama, Japan PM discuss NKorea: officials

2010-06-25T17:19:54Z

US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in a telephone talk Friday discussed North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons threat, according to officials in Tokyo.

Obama in the 15-minute conversation also agreed to visit Tokyo in the second half of the year, a plan w...

Japan Politics

2010-04-01T09:24:48Z

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso leaves his final news conference as prime minister at the official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Aso and his Cabinet resigned Wednesday to pave the way for parliament to elect Yukio Hatoyama as the country's next leader. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Japan Politics Election

2010-04-03T03:52:11Z

Prime Minister Taro Aso, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, bows as he arrives to speak to the media while observing the result of the parliamentary elections ballot counting at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. Aso conceded defeat in elections Sunday as media exit polls indicated the ...

Japan Politics Elections

2010-04-03T04:50:20Z

A TV director holds a signboard reading "Six minutes," notifying a TV crew to conclude a TV interview with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in front of photographers and a TV showing live broadcasting from the Japan's main opposition party while Aso and senior par...

APTOPIX Japan Politics Elections

2010-04-03T04:54:15Z

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, reacts as he looks at the report on the results of parliamentary elections during the ballot counting at the party headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. Aso conceded defeat in elect...

APTOPIX Japan Politics

2010-04-03T07:06:35Z

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, delivers a speech during the final campaign rally for Sunday's parliament's lower house elections in Tokyo Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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