Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa loses Diet seat

Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa loses Diet seat

OBIHIRO, Japan - Former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa of the Liberal Democratic Party talks on the cellphone while walking past a portrait of his deceased father Ichiro Nakagawa, also an LDP politician, in Obihiro, Hokkaido, on Aug. 30. Nakagawa, who stepped down as finance minister after appearing to be drunk at a press conference at the Group of Seven financial meeting in Rome in February, lost his seat in the House of Representatives in the general election.

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