Japan ruling party handed big defeat over tax plan

Monday, July 12, 2010

TOKYO -- Voters handed a stinging defeat to Japan's ruling party in weekend elections, rejecting a proposal to increase taxes and handicapping a fledgling government struggling to keep the world's second-largest economy from financial meltdown.

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