Taro Aso, Japan's newly appointed deputy prime minister and minister for finance and financial services, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Japan's parliament confirmed Shinzo Abe as the nation's seventh prime minister in six years, returning him to the office he left in 2007 after his party regained power in a landslide election victory last week. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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