Japón despide a cinco primeros ministros en cuatro años
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe smiles at his first news conference after being elected as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party at the party headquarters in Tokyo September 20, 2006. The soft-spoken Abe has long topped the list of politicians Japanese voters prefer to see succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi making him the candidate of choice for a majority of LDP lawmakers looking ahead to elections for parliament's upper house next summer. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa (JAPAN)
Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda attends a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo September 1, 2008. Fukuda said on Monday that he had decided to resign in an effort to break a political deadlock. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN)