Breathing Room for Japan’s Fukuda
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda must have breathed a sigh of relief, at least for a couple months, as the Diet adjourned last week for the summer, giving him a respite from the debilitating confrontations with the opposition-controlled upper house of parliament that have dogged his months in office.
The embattled premier seems to have arrested the steady sli…
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