Japan PM Aso calls election, risks historic defeat

2009/07/20 23:16:53 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved parliament's lower house on Tuesday for an election on August 30 and vowed to restore voters' faith in his fractious ruling party, which polls show is in danger of a historic defeat. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Z-qXp5CHxiI:dS508Q7r7Xw: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=Z-qXp5CHxiI:dS508Q7r7Xw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Z-qXp5CHxiI:dS508Q7r7Xw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Z-qXp5CHxiI:dS508Q7r7Xw:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Z-qXp5CHxiI:dS508Q7r7Xw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Z-qXp5CHxiI" height="1" width="1"/
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