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PM Kan at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 30, 2011. The government and Kan's Democratic Party of Japan agreed earlier in the day on social security and tax reform plans, proposing to raise the consumption tax in stages to 10 percent by the mid-2010s to address the country's public finances.

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Nukaga eyes double-digit sales tax in mid-2010s

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 11. He said he believes Japan's consumption tax rate should be raised in two or three stages from the current 5 percent to reach a double-digit level in the mid-2010s to finance ballooning social security costs to support aging baby boomers.

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Tanigaki announces bid to run in LDP head poll, eyes tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (C) said July 27 he will run in the September election to choose Japan's next prime minister, vowing to restore the country's financial health with a plan to hike the consumption tax to 10 percent by the mid-2010s from the current 5 percent.

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Tanigaki announces bid to run in LDP head poll, eyes tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said July 27 he will run in the September election to choose Japan's next prime minister, vowing to restore the country's financial health with a plan to hike the consumption tax to 10 percent by the mid-2010s from the current 5 percent.

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Tanigaki announces bid to run in LDP head poll, eyes tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said July 27 he will run in the September election to choose Japan's next prime minister, vowing to restore the country's financial health with a plan to hike the consumption tax to 10 percent by the mid-2010s from the current 5 percent. (Kyodo)

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Tanigaki announces bid to run in LDP head poll, eyes tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (C) said July 27 he will run in the September election to choose Japan's next prime minister, vowing to restore the country's financial health with a plan to hike the consumption tax to 10 percent by the mid-2010s from the current 5 percent. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Nukaga eyes double-digit sales tax in mid-2010s

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 11. He said he believes Japan's consumption tax rate should be raised in two or three stages from the current 5 percent to reach a double-digit level in the mid-2010s to finance ballooning social security costs to support aging baby boomers. (Kyodo)

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PM Kan at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 30, 2011. The government and Kan's Democratic Party of Japan agreed earlier in the day on social security and tax reform plans, proposing to raise the consumption tax in stages to 10 percent by the mid-2010s to address the country's public finances. (Kyodo)

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Michal Hasek

Interior Minister Hamacek named former regional governor, former CSSD first deputy head Michal Hasek (photo) as new deputy minister replacing Kulhanek, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. In the mid-2010s, Hasek left top politics over a controversy on the Czech political scene following the 2013 general election. Hasek, the former governor of South Moravia and former head of the Czech Regions' Association, attended the so-called Lany meeting, at which several high-ranking CSSD officials negotiated with President Milos Zeman about unseating Bohuslav Sobotka as the leader of the CSSD and its team negotiating about the formation of the new government in the autumn 2013. Sobotka then survived the attempted internal coup, became prime minister and many of his opponents withdrew from high posts. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)