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Updated: 2008-12-03 17:32

Taro Aso (L), secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), closes his eyes as outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda leaves the LDP parliamentarian meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo September 3, 2008. Hawkish former foreign minister Aso has the backing of half of the ruling party's branches to become Japan's next prime minister after Yasuo Fukuda's abrupt resignation, a media survey showed on Wednesday. [Agencies]