Japan's Prime Minister calls election

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Updated July 21, 2009 20:49:24

Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso has finally dissolved the parliament and called an election.

With the nation's economy in recession, voters will head to the polls on the 30th of August and analysts tip it's the end of a long and bumpy road for Prime Minister Aso's Liberal Democratic Party.

Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speaker: Doctor Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Japan.

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