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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 16 > Japan’s parliament elects new premier

Japan’s parliament elects new premier


September 16, 2009

TOKYO — Longtime opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama has been elected prime minister of Japan, promising to reinvigorate the world’s second-largest economy and shake up government with his left-of-center party after more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by conservatives.

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