Many people blame the Prime Minister Taro Aso for allowing the recession to get worse.

BBC: Japan sinks deeper into recession

Prime Minister Taro Aso has promised public spending to soften the impact of the recession.

BBC: Japan sinks deeper into recession

Finance Minister Taro Aso is in no position again to test the patience of the floating free world.

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In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned of a "very high possibility" the U.N. would level economic sanctions against North Korea.

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Colleagues say the best candidate is Taro Aso, the foreign minister.

ECONOMIST: Japan

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.

ECONOMIST: Japan

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.

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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.

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"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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