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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been hospitalized
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced his intention to resign Wednesday, has been hospitalized, the Kyodo news agency reports. The cause was diagnosed as a "gastro-intestinal tract ailment." Speaking to reporters Thursday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano told journalists that the illness had "reached a peak," and that doctors had decided to examine him in the hospital. He said that Abe had been suffering from the ailment for some time, and that his condition had grown worse since returning from a trip to Asia in late August. He said that Abe's worsening health had been one of the reasons for his resignation, adding that the prime minister had been receiving intravenous fluids for the past week. Although no mention was made of an immediate transfer of power, Kyodo said that in the event of necessity, Yosano would exercise the prime minister's functions until a new election. Abe announced his intention to resign Wednesday, following an upper house election defeat and mounting controversy over his country's support for U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan. The prime minister, 52, announced his decision on national television after just a year in power, but did not specify a date for his departure. He said a change of leadership was needed to generate public support for government policies, and to push forward with Japan's involvement in counterterrorism efforts. Following the announcement, the Japanese television channel NHK quoted a government official as saying Abe had decided to step down because Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, had refused to meet with him to discuss extending the antiterrorism law, set to expire November 1. The Democratic Party has pledged to vote against Japan's continued support for the United States-led coalition in war-torn Afghanistan. Japanese refueling supply ships and Maritime Self Defense Force destroyers have been based in the Indian Ocean since November 2001 to support coalition efforts in Afghanistan, following the signing of the antiterrorism law in 2001, which has been repeatedly extended. On July 29, the ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the upper house of parliament, following a major public scandal in which millions of pension records were lost. In March 2007 Shinzo Abe, widely considered a nationalist, sparked controversy in Asia and the West by playing down Japanese war crimes in WWII, and claiming there was no evidence that Japan's army abducted around 200,000 young women during the war from Korea, China, and other occupied territories, for use as sex slaves.
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