12h 22min, jul 14, 2006 y - Japan elects Shinzo Abe PM
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Abe won 339 of 475 votes in the powerful lower house, as well as a majority in the upper house. At 52, he will be Japan's youngest prime minister since World War II, replacing the flamboyant but straight-talking Junichiro Koizumi.
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