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- LDP's Kato, Yamasaki eye new party
(Daily Yomiuri Online) (Dec. 30, 2008)
With an eye to forming a new party ahead of an expected House of Representatives election, former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Koichi Kato, former LDP Vice President Taku Yamasaki and other members plan to establish a new study group as early as next month, according to sources. continued ...
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- Kono prays in Hawaii for war dead
(The Japan Times) Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008
HONOLULU (Kyodo) House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono on Sunday laid flowers at a U.S. memorial cemetery in Honolulu where victims of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are among those commemorated. continued ... - No sign of a 'peace agreement'
(The Japan Times) Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008
By HISAHIKO OKAZAKI
More than six months have passed since the presidential election in Taiwan. After a hiatus of eight years, the Kuomintang is in power. This actually represents the restoration of the mainland-lineage forces for the first time in 20 years — if you count the Lee Teng-hui era as rule by non-mainland-lineage forces. continued ...
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