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Japan's Comeback Kid?

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Feb 13, 2009
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Conventional wisdom, supported by terrifying opinion polls, says that Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and his beleaguered party are toast. When eventually Japan gets to vote in a general election, it is primed to turn him and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) out of office, especially with the economy now having fallen off a cliff.

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