Shoichi_Nakagawa - OZAWA OPENS POLICY DEBATES AT JAPAN'S PARLIAMENT

OZAWA OPENS POLICY DEBATES AT JAPAN'S PARLIAMENT

Shoichi Nakagawa, chairman of Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, addresses questions to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe regarding his Policy Speech, which Abe made Friday, at the regular session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo, Japan, on January 29 2007. (UPI Photo/Keizo Mori)


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cnn.com at 3 Oct 2009 10:23 pm
Former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned from his post after appearing intoxicated at a news conference earlier this year, was found dead Sunday in his home, police...
telegraph.co.uk at 17 Feb 2009 05:55 am
Three days after slurring his way through a press conference Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa on Tuesday announced his resignation while continuing to deny that he was drunk.
telegraph.co.uk at 17 Feb 2009 03:53 am
The Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa is to resign after he was accused of being drunk at a G7 news conference.
telegraph.co.uk at 16 Feb 2009 05:01 am
The finance minister of Japan Shoichi Nakagawa denied claims he had been drunk at a G7 news conference in Rome saying he had taken a large amount of cold medicine.
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