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Article: Japanese premier, Cabinet resign New leaders expected before summit talks
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1994
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TOKYO -- In a last-ditch effort to save their political lives and
stabilize the government for major trade negotiations, Prime Minister
Tsutomu Hata and his coalition Cabinet resigned yesterday.
The course chosen by Hata probably means a new Cabinet can be
formed before summit talks with the United States and a meeting of
the Group of Seven industrial nations early next month, allowing
Japan to avoid the embarrassment of sending a lame-duck leader to
those talks for the second straight year.
Coming just before the Parliament was to vote on a no-confidence
resolution that Hata seemed certain to lose, the resignations also
opened up a possibility that he might be able to return to office ...