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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 and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Taro Aso
    Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader ...
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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
    Japan's 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 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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  • Japan votes for change: DPJ wins by landslide
    News Source: The Nation | 1 day ago
    10am Monday, the DPJ garnered a combined 304 seats in single-seat constituencies and proportional representation races. The LDP, led by Prime Minister Taro Aso, collected 117 seats and its coalition partner, New Komeito, 20 seats, according to early
  • Reading between the lines of Hatoyama's far-sighted 'vision thing'
    News Source: Japan Times | 13 days 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.
  • Essay: Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese?
    News Source: The New York Times | 14 days 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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  • Congress and Law: Historical Review of the U.S.-Japan ...
    Blog Source: congressandlaw.blogspot.com | about 13 hours ago
    succeeded by current Prime Minister Taro Aso in September 2008. Aso, who served as Foreign Minister in the Abe Cabinet, is considered a defense hawk but has been largely unable to pursue a more active military role for Japan due to his ...
  • Top 60 Japanese words/phrases of 2009 ::: Pink Tentacle
    Blog Source: pinktentacle.com | about 13 hours ago
    In a debate with the now former Prime Minister Taro Aso, new Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama criticized the planned facility as a waste of taxpayer money, referring to it mockingly as a “state-run manga cafe. ...
  • Politics, manga, universities and doujinshi | 世論 What ...
    Blog Source: whatjapanthinks.com | about 13 hours ago
    One of the last great acts of the ex-Prime Minister Taro Aso was to propose a palace to celebrate his favourite hobby, manga. The new government cancelled the.
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