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Article: Yasuo Fukuda elected prime minister of Japan

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September 25, 2007
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Tokyo, Sept. 25 -- Yasuo Fukuda, newly elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was Tuesday elected prime minister by the country's parliament.

In the vote casting held at the House of Representatives, or lower house of the Diet, Fukuda won 338 votes out of the total of 476 valid ballots. Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the main opposition party, got 117 ballots.

Ozawa was elected prime minister shortly after by the House of Councillors since the opposition bloc enjoys the majority there. He obtained 133 votes out of the 239 valid ballots in the second round of voting. The upper house's first round of voting failed to give a result because ...

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