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The Osaka High Court ruled on Friday that visits by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to a Shinto shrine for war dead violate Japan's constitutional provisions for separation of church and state....

A Tokyo court dismissed a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Thursday that claimed his visits to a Shinto war shrine violated Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. The court denied the plaintiffs'...

International representatives and Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki have called for a halt to violence that continued to escalate among rival groups over constitutional reforms to be voted on in November . A statement signed...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , its coalition partner the New Komeito Party and its largest opposition, the Democratic Party of Japan , agreed Wednesday to establish a...

Sunni Arabs are demanding that new elections be held to settle remaining disputes in the Iraqi draft constitution as the document is anticipated to be approved by parliament Thursday. Hussein Al Falluji vowed that...

In Tokyo, thousands of demonstrators gathered outside a conference held by the Article 9 Association Saturday to protest proposed changes to Japan's constitution that would eliminate Article 9, otherwise known as the pacifist clause. Article 9,...

The Japanese parliament passed a measure Friday giving Japanese Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ohno the legal power to shoot down incoming missiles without consulting the prime minister or cabinet. The bill, which passed in the...

A Japanese court Tuesday refused to grant a petition by a group of Japanese and South Korean citizens seeking to stop Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara from visiting a Shinto...

A new poll shows that sixty-one percent of Japanese voters support amending the country's US-drafted pacifist constitution but there is disagreement about how far Japan should move from its renunciation of war. Article 9 of the Japanese...

In Friday's international brief, Nigerian President and current African Union Chairman Olusegun Obasanjo expressed outrage Friday after a plane carrying a Nigerian advance party was diverted from the Togo capital city of Lome and denied permission to...