Sadakazu Tanigaki
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Sadakazu Tanigaki is a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2017, as Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006, as President of the Liberal Democratic Pa
Official portrait, 2009
Tarō Asō
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Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance fro
Sadakazu Tanigaki
…upper house. Tanigaki declared his candidacy for the LDP presidency on 28 July 2006, but came in third place in a three-way race against Shinzo Abe and Tarō Asō. Tanigaki was viewed as the "moderate" candidate in the race, mainly due to his foreign policy views: unlike Abe and Asō, he stated that he would not…
Official portrait, 2017
Asō (seated, far right) with other members of the International Club at Stanford University, 1965
Tarō Asō meeting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on 18 February 2009.
Tarō Asō meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush in the White House on 14 November 2008.