Yasuo Fukuda
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Yasuo Fukuda is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008. He was previously the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese history, serving in that
Official portrait, 2007
Fukuda as a child
Fukuda with his father, Takeo, and mother, Mie, in Nanjing in 1942
Fukuda with Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe, Kōsei Ueno and Teijirō Furukawa (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on 26 April 2002)
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
Yasuo Fukuda
…Prime Minister (Takeo Fukuda) to also take up the post. On 1 September 2008, Fukuda announced his resignation as party leader, and was succeeded by Tarō Asō. Although Japan hosted the G8 summit meeting without mishap during Fukuda's time in office, he himself earned little or no credit from ordinary Japanese…
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.