Japan PM set to keep job ahead of tough election

2009/07/17 02:51:38 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso looks set to keep his job and hold an election next month after efforts to force a ruling party meeting that could have pushed him to quit were blocked by party heavyweights. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=MnCZ38wNgZw:6zmZjvWsbNo:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=MnCZ38wNgZw:6zmZjvWsbNo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=MnCZ38wNgZw:6zmZjvWsbNo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=MnCZ38wNgZw:6zmZjvWsbNo:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=MnCZ38wNgZw:6zmZjvWsbNo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/MnCZ38wNgZw" height="1" width="1"/
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