Aso dissolves parliament, calls election
Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso (center) attends a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers' meeting at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo yesterday. Reuters |
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved parliament's lower house yesterday for an Aug 30 election that polls show could see his conservative party ousted for only the second time in its more than half-century reign.
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