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Naoto Kan, Japan's prime minister and president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), leaves a news conference at the party's election center in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, July 12, 2010. Kan lost control of parliament's upper house, undermining legislative efforts to cut the world's largest public debt and creating the possibility of a third leadership change in a year. Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Naoto Kan, Japan's prime minister and president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), leaves a news conference at the party's election center in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, July 12, 2010. Kan lost control of parliament's upper house, undermining legislative efforts to cut the world's largest public debt and creating the possibility of a third leadership change in a year. Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images