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Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM

Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's

Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM

Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime-minister-to-be announced his top lieutenants on Tuesday and promised his conservative party will pursue fresh policies to tackle the nation's chronic economic woes and bolster its sagging influence on the international stage.

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime-minister-to-be announced his top lieutenants on Tuesday and promised his conservative party will pursue fresh policies to tackle the nation's chronic economic woes and bolster its sagging influence on the international stage.

Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM

Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime-minister-to-be announced his top lieutenants on Tuesday and promised his conservative party will pursue fresh policies to tackle the nation's chronic economic woes and bolster its sagging influence on the international stage.

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime-minister-to-be announced his top lieutenants on Tuesday and promised his conservative party will pursue fresh policies to tackle the nation's chronic economic woes and bolster its sagging influence on the international stage.

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies

Japan's incoming PM promises fresh policies
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime-minister-to-be announced his top lieutenants on Tuesday and promised his conservative party will pursue fresh policies to tackle the nation's chronic economic woes and bolster its sagging influence on the international stage.

Tsunami debris team reaches dock on Wash. coast

Tsunami debris team reaches dock on Wash. coast
FORKS, Wash. (AP) - Hiking over primitive coastal trails, a team reached a dock that apparently floated from Japan after last year's tsunami and just washed ashore on a Washington beach, and an official said the group found Japanese writing inside the structure. The team of tsunami debris

Weather prevents dock inspection on Wash. coast

Weather prevents dock inspection on Wash. coast
By DOUG ESSERAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - A dock that apparently was ripped away from Japanese waters by a tsunami and drifted for more than a year and a half has washed ashore on one of the most remote beaches on the U.S. West Coast. It was spotted Tuesday by the Coast Guard on Washington's