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Fujii Says Japan Will Draft Plan for Unused Budget
Sep 17th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Finance Minister HirohisaFujii said the government will draft a plan to redeploy unusedfunds from the current fiscal year’s extra budget by Oct...
Yukio Hatoyama Elected Prime Minister of Japan
Sep 16th, 2009 - FOXNews
TOKYO — Longtime opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama was elected prime minister of Japan on Wednesday, promising to reinvigorate the world's second-largest economy and shake up government with his left-of-center party.
Japan prepares for new prime minister
Sep 15th, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Taro Aso resigned early Wednesday, setting the stage for Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama to take over the reins of government. Last month...
Japanese election set to end Liberal ...
Aug 29th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
Voters in Japan are expected to deliver an overwhelming defeat to the country's ruling Liberal Democratic party [LDP] and send it into opposition for only the second time in more than half a century. After 12 days of exhaustive official campaigning...
Japan rivals make final appeals
Aug 29th, 2009 - Al Jazeera English
Japan's political leaders have been making final attempts to woo voters before Sunday's elections that are widely predicted to sweep the opposition into power. Taro Aso...
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28:43Davos Annual Meeting 2009 - Taro Aso, PM Japan
www.weforum.org 31.01.2009 Special Address by Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan With Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Renault, France; President and Chief Executive Officer ...
2:26Japanese PM, Taro Aso meets with President Obama at the White House
Japanese Prime minister Taro Aso has become the first foreign leader to meet Obama at the White House. They discussed the global finacial crisis, security issues(North Korea's nuclear weapons) ...
1:07A face, culture, and nobility TARO ASO
顔と教養と気品の麻生太郎His face is good and it is educated and graceful. Just he is suitable to the next Japan's Prime Minister.
4:45Taro Aso & Shoichi Nakagawa
Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks with Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa
Taro Aso from WikiPedia:
Taro Aso at the 2009 World Economic Forum
Taro Aso (????, As? Tar??, born September 20, 1940) is the current Prime Minister of Japan, having taken office on September 24, 2008. He is also President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and has served in the House of Representatives since 1979. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007, and was Secretary-General of the LDP briefly in 2007 and in 2008.
On September 22, 2008, Aso was elected to succeed Yasuo Fukuda as President of the LDP. On September 24, the Diet elected Aso as Prime Minister.
Aso, a Roman Catholic, was born in Iizuka, Fukuoka on September 20, 1940. His father, Takakichi Aso, was the chairman of the Aso Cement Company and a close associate of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka; his mother Kazuko Aso was Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's daughter. Taro is also a great-great-grandson of Toshimichi Okubo, and his current wife, Chikako is the third daughter of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki. His younger sister, Nobuko, is the wife of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, a first cousin of the Emperor Akihito.
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