Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Shinzo Abe elected Japan prime minister (AP)

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe walks through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park after offering a prayer to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima western Japan in this September 1 2006 file photo. Japan's presumed next prime minister named a fiscal conservative and a hawkish Cabinet member to top ruling party posts Monday suggesting he would press ahead with pro-growth economic policies at home and an assertive stand abroad. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi FILE)AP - Nationalist Shinzo Abe a proponent of a robust alliance with the United States and a more assertive military easily won election in parliament Tuesday as Japan's youngest postwar prime minister.


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