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  • Main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama
    Main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama
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  • Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, who is also Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader, and main opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama attend their debate session in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, who is also Japan's ruling Liberal ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Democratic Party leader Hatoyama leaves after their debate session in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Democratic Party leader Hatoyama ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Taro Aso
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  • A combination photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama during their debate session in Tokyo
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  • Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso attends a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso attends a ceremony marking the 64th ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Taro Aso shakes hands with a voter during a campaign for the upcoming national election in Tokyo
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  • People watch as Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso campaigns for the upcoming election in Tokyo
    People watch as Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso campaigns for the ...
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  • Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso makes an election campaign speech in Tokyo
    Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso makes an election campaign ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Taro Aso shakes hands with the crowd at a campaign for the upcoming lower house election in Isahaya
    Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Taro Aso makes a speech at a campaign for the upcoming lower house election in Isahaya
    Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Taro Aso arrives at his party's headquarters as results start to come in for Japan's lower house election in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Taro Aso walks past a board with his party's candidates' names at his party's headquarters in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Taro Aso leaves a news conference in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
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  • Japan's Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Taro Aso leaves after speaking to journalists at the party's headquarters in Tokyo
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Taro Aso reacts at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
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  • Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Taro Aso bows after a press event in Tokyo
    Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Taro Aso ...
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  • Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso receives a bouquet of flowers from a staff member of his official residence as he leaves his office in Tokyo
    Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso receives a bouquet of flowers ...
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  • Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso walks in front of staff members as they applaud to bid him goodbye at his official residence in Tokyo
    Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso walks in front of staff ...
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  • Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso attends his final news conference as premier at his official residence in Tokyo
    Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso attends his final news conference as ...
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  • Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso leaves his final news conference as premier at his official residence in Tokyo
    Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso leaves his final news conference as ...
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  • Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso reacts during his final news conference as premier at his official residence in Tokyo
    Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso reacts during his final news ...
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  • Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso waves goodbye to staff in his official residence as he leaves office in Tokyo
    Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso waves goodbye to staff in his ...
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  • LDP lawmaker Sadakazu Tanigaki shakes hands with former prime minister Taro Aso in Tokyo
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Main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama
Taro Aso's Biography

Taro Aso (麻生太郎, Asō Tarō?, born September 20, 1940) was the 59th Prime Minister of Japan serving from September 2008 to September 2009, and was defeated in the August 2009 election.

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  • Reading between the lines of Hatoyama's far-sighted 'vision thing'
    News Source: Japan Times | about 19 hours ago
    The prime minister's keynote policy address in the Diet affords the nation's leader an opportunity to present their overall thinking to the people — as its name in Japanese, shoshin hyomei (declaration of convictions), would indeed suggest.
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    News Source: The New York Times | 1 day ago
    When I first moved to Kyoto in 1999, I knew about 50 words of Japanese. My attempts to string together a few broken phrases were met with excessive praise, and I assumed everyone was being nice. “No,” I remember my friend Yuki saying. “People
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    News Source: Japan Today | 4 days ago
    Bureaucrats have effectively pulled the teeth from a government office set up last year to control their notorious ‘‘amakudari’’ practice of landing lucrative post-retirement jobs through their organizational power, government sources said
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  • Washington Note Headlines -- 2 November 2009 - The ...
    Blog Source: www.thewashingtonnote.com | 3 days ago
    Could still happen -- but what a big change when Hillary Clinton's first overseas visit was to Tokyo and Barack Obama's first official foreign head of government was Japan Prime Minister Taro Aso. American and Japanese authorities are ...
  • WPR Article | Under the Influence: Upping the Alliance With ...
    Blog Source: www.worldpoliticsreview.com | 3 days ago
    Since Junichiro Koizumi's five-year run in 2006, Japan has had four prime ministers: Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, Taro Aso, and now Hatoyama -- whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) unseated the Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled ...
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    Blog Source: www.ghdhairstraightenersuk.com | 3 days ago
    Noriko Aso of Japan 1000 the late Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki's third daughter. With the 33-year-old Taro Aso (the current Japanese Foreign Minister) marriage. As to the reasons for late marriage, is said to be related with the Prime ...
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