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...Some LDP members are calling for Aso's resignation, which they believe would improve the party's electoral chances. Those calls have increased following the defeat in the Tokyo elections. Aso has so far refused to step down as Prime Minister...
...call a cease-fire during the final offensives against the Tigers. You resisted that pressure, and yet these are some of your biggest trading partners. Are you worried about jeopardizing those relationships? I don't think they're so petty-minded. They're the people who encouraged us to defeat terrorism. We followed what [George W.] Bush said. We accomplished what he wanted: eliminate terrorism. They must give credit to us. We fought their war. We showed that you can defeat terrorism...
...high. I reject that totally. There was no violation of human rights. There were no civilian casualties. If I did that, it wouldn't have taken 2½ years to finish this. I would have done this in a few hours. These are all propaganda. (Read "How to Defeat Insurgencies: Sri Lanka's Bad Example...
...Following his Liberal Democratic Party's bitter defeat over the weekend in Tokyo's municipal elections, Prime Minister Taro Aso announced the lower house of the Japanese parliament will be dissolved on July 21 and a general election will be held Aug. 30. Aso's decision ended months of speculation as to when his battered administration and fellow LDP lawmakers would finally have to face voters. The country's last general election was in September 2005. (See pictures of Japan and the world...
...results are any indication, the Japanese electorate is prepared to end the LDP's long stint running the country. In Tokyo's Metropolitan Assembly elections, considered a bellwether of the country's mood, the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) for the first time won a majority - a stinging defeat for the LDP and its ruling coalition. DPJ members ended up with 54 seats, compared with 38 for LDP candidates. "This [win] is big enough to indicate that, within the country, the trend is not good for the LDP," says Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary...