Slurring Japanese Minister resigns

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Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa has retired from his job after appearing to be drunk at a G7 news conference. Nakagawa told a group of reporters he was resigning for health reasons. Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano will succeed him and there's not expected to be any policy changes. The resignation somes as the Prime Minister's public support is crashing. His conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is in danger of losing the next election after more than half a century of almost unbroken rule. Sonia Legg reports.

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