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Old economic problems for a new leader

The election of a new prime minister is as unlikely to mark a change in the politics of Japan as it is to change the economic outlook. Whilst we sincerely hope new Prime Minister Noda can provide the leadership Japan so greatly needs, we suspect his tenure will be cut short by a party that is all too happy to jettison its leader at the first sign of falling popularity.

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