TOKYO - A quick-smiling former Olympic skeetshooter with a penchant for tailored suits and manga comic books took power as Japan's third prime minister in two years Wednesday, vowing to boost a languishing economy.
Lawmakers elected Taro Aso, a 68-year-old conservative popular with the young and known for his straight talk, after quelling an attempt by the upper house to install a rival as premier...
Aso, Buddhist Japan's first Roman Catholic premier, inherits a stumbling economy, an unpopular ruling party and mounting expectations that he will call snap lower house elections to prove he has a mandate to rule...
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