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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan drinks water next to Finance ...
Jun 3rd, 2011
(Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan drinks water next to Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda at a budget committee meeting in the upper house of parliament in Tokyo June 3, 2011. Japan's fractious ruling party resumed its bickering on Friday after Kan hinted he wanted to keep his job into the new year, angering rivals who had voted down a no-confidence motion in return for a promise he would quit.
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