TOKYO (AP) -- Over the past 20 years, Japan has had 13 prime ministers. In a pattern rarely seen outside the communist world, individual leaders have come and gone, but the ruling party has remained the same.... ...full story at AP
from AP on Thu, Sep 11 2008
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