[/floatr]Candidates For Japanese Prime Minister Give Press ConferenceTOKYO, JAPAN - Getty Images, JULY 27:Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki ...of the Liberal Democratic Party ....announced he standing for the position of Prime Minister....Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki and Foreign Minister Taro Aso are the strongest candidates to replace him.
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Tanigaki announces his candidacy in LDP presidential election
July 27, 2006 - MSN-Mainichi Daily News
.....Tanigaki also appeared on a news program Thursday and announced that he planned to raise Japan's consumption tax from 5 percent to 10 percent. As for Prime Minister Koizumi's controversial visits to Yasukuni Shrine, where the souls of Class-A war criminals are interred, Tanigaki said he would not visit the shrine if he became prime minister by winning the LDP presidential race......
