Noda tight-lipped as Japan awaits announcement of general election
China Daily | Updated: 2012-11-13 08:36
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the lower house budget committee meeting in Tokyo on Monday. Figures showing a 0.9 percent contraction in Japan's economy in the three months to September, the first in three quarters, are severe, Noda said. Yuriko Nakao / Reuters |
The Japanese people are counting down the days in anticipation of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolving the House of Representatives and calling a general election.
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