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Briefly: Faults under nuke plant likely active, panel says

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe is all but certain to become Japan’s next prime minister after his party’s victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Mr. Abe resigned as prime minister for health reasons after just a year in the job in 2007. One of his goals is to recover Japan’s economic vitality of the 1980s and ‘90s. His nationalist policies could rile China, hurting the auto industry and others with huge investments in the fast-growing Chinese market. (Associated Press)

Nationalist Abe likely next prime minister of Japan

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Shinzo Abe, leader of the main Japanese opposition Liberal Democratic Party, answers a reporter's question at party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday night, Dec. 16, 2012. The conservative LDP stormed back into power in parliamentary elections Sunday after three years in opposition, exit polls showed, signaling a rightward shift in the government that could further heighten tensions with rival China. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

After landslide victory, Abe says Japan has difficult road

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will get a second chance to lead the nation after a stint in 2006 and 2007. (Associated Press)

Abe’s conservative party likely to win in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

A boy slips his grandmother's vote into a ballot box at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Conservative LDP party wins in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

A protester flashes an anti-Osprey placard at a gate of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, in southwestern Japan, on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

Crime, Osprey add to Okinawan anger over U.S. bases

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: East Asia should embrace sea treaty

The Washington Times

Tsunami evacuees watch TV news flashing a tsunami warning at their shelter Takata Junior High School that stands on a higher ground in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2012, after a strong earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan. It is the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami last year. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

Tsunami warning lifted for strong Japan earthquake

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, standing by a ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor, looks back as he speaks during his inspection tour to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2012. Japan deployed the PAC-3 system on the ministry compound in the middle of Tokyo to prepare for North Korea's planned launch of a long-range rocket starting Dec. 10. (Associated Press)

Snow may have slowed North Korea launch

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

“Japan needs to be pushed. Japan needs to talk to Taiwan, Japan needs to talk to China.” — Yann-Huei Song of Taiwan’s Institute for European and American Studies (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

U.S. silence over island dispute risks escalation in East China Sea, analysts say

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Inside China: Defense of Japan

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

Illustration Chinese Aggression by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LYONS: Chinese aggression ratcheting up

By Adm. James A. Lyons

Workers inspect the structure inside the 5.3-mile Enasan Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Achimura, Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan, on Monday. Concrete ceiling panels fell onto moving vehicles deep inside another tunnel on the same expressway Sunday. Nine people died. (Associated Press)

Japan faces costly infrastructure repairs

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Police officers and firefighters gather at the entrance to the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, in central Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Parts of the tunnel collapsed, trapping an unknown number of vehicles, as smoke from a fire inside prevented rescuers from approaching. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

7 missing in collapse of highway tunnel in Japan

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Japan’s space agency probes possible data leak

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Forklift driver Clyde Boyce takes inventory in the warehouse at a Michelin tire manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

U.S. economy chugging, as rivals face recession

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Inside the Ring: North Korean missile launch set

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

UN says thawing permafrost to boost global warming

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

Rich, poor spar at climate talks

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press