Moderate wins Japan party vote, likely to be next prime minister

Monday, September 24, 2007

TOKYO -- The veteran moderate Yasuo Fukuda easily won election as Japan's ruling party president Sunday, pledging to keep a pro-U.S. foreign policy and improve ties with Asia after he almost certainly becomes prime minister later this week.

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