It was time for Japan to get a new Prime Minister. Enfeebled Ichiro Hatoyama, 73, who had held the job since 1954, had agreed to step down once a peace treaty with Russia was signed and Japan was admitted to the U.N. These ambitions achieved, he could goand whoever was chosen by his party, the ruling Liberal-Democrats, would become the country's Prime Minister. In symbolic anticipation of a decision about to be cast, the artificial trees in the lobby at Tokyo's Sankei Kaikan theater were festooned with large paper dice. The red...
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