Koizumi dissolves lower house for snap election

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (seated far left) watches Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda deliver an Imperial rescript ordering a dissolution of the House of Representatives to a parliamentary aide to House Speaker Yohei Kono 'far right) on Aug. 8. (Kyodo ial rescript ordering a dissolution of the)

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