The next two LDP PMs, Fukuda Yasuo, and Aso Taro, each exiting ignominiously after only about a year each.
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Not so with PM Abe Shinzo and his alter-ego, mentor, and (in a relationship resembling that of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush) possibly master, deputy PM and finance minister Aso Taro.
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Fresher in memory is the landslide victory delivered last month by the same voters to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Komeito (NK) coalition, by virtue of which two largely failed former LDP prime ministers, Abe Shinzo (58) as Prime Minister and Aso Taro (72) as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, are once again at the helm, this time doubling their powers as a team.
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Prime Minister Taro Aso has promised public spending to soften the impact of the recession.
Finance Minister Taro Aso is in no position again to test the patience of the floating free world.
On October 31st General Tamogami was promptly sacked by Taro Aso, Japan's prime minister for all of five weeks.
Japan's Foreign Minister, Taro Aso warned last month that China's opaque military buildup and nuclear capabilities pose a considerable threat.
In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned of a "very high possibility" the U.N. would level economic sanctions against North Korea.
In this scenario, Taro Aso, the foreign minister, is perhaps the favourite to succeed, with Sadakazu Tanigaki, a former finance minister, also a likely contender.
Colleagues say the best candidate is Taro Aso, the foreign minister.
At the time of the cabinet reshuffle, Yoshiro Mori, one of the LDP's grand old men, foisted Taro Aso onto Mr Fukuda as the party's new secretary-general.
Particularly upsetting to the neighbors was the visit by Taro Aso, the No. 2 official in Mr. Abe's government, who serves as deputy prime minister and finance minister.
On Tuesday the Japanese prime minister, Taro Aso, said that Germany's reluctance to use public spending aggressively stemmed from its lack of understanding of the importance of fiscal mobilisation.
Taro Aso easily won an election to become leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and was sworn in as prime minister, the country's third new leader in two years.
Meanwhile, a long-odds successor to Mr Koizumi, Taro Aso, the foreign minister and another Yasukuni-goer, recently declared that when it came to sensitive issues, national interest should trump private beliefs.
"Our biggest problem is that the general public has been stuck with deflation -- in mind and heart -- for the past 20 years, " Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso told CNN's Jill Dougherty recently.
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LDP's powerful committee on anti-deflation policies, and Taro Aso, the party's policy chief, they are putting the finishing touches to a bill that temporarily suspends mark-to-market accounting for banks, life insurers and 10, 000-odd listed companies.
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After Taro Aso's Liberal Democratic Party was humiliated in Tokyo's municipal elections the ruling coalition lost its majority in the city's Assembly and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan became the largest party Japan's prime minister called an early election for August 30th.
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