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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 14 > Bowing to fate, Japan’s premier calls election

Bowing to fate, Japan’s premier calls election

By Blaine Harden / The Bulletin
July 14, 2009

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso kept putting off a national election, hoping that voter dissatisfaction with him and his ruling party would peter out with the passage of time.

But five straight losses for his Liberal Democratic Party in local elections — culminating....

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