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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and his Cabinet resigned today to pave the way for parliament to elect Yukio Hatoyama as the country’s next leader.
The resignations were a formality so that parliament’s lower house, now controlled by Hatoyama’s party following a landslide election victory last month, can vote him in as Japan’s prime minister.
Hatoyama’s victory ends more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by Aso’s Liberal Democratic Party.
