Fukuda, Aso file for LDP leadership, clash over policy

Fukuda, Aso file for LDP leadership, clash over policy

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda (R) and Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taro Aso pose for photographers at a news conference held at the LDP headquarters on Sept. 15 after they filed their candidacies for the party's presidential election on Sept. 23 to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. They clashed over issues surrounding North Korea and Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine during the press conference.

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