"We will support Asian countries by mobilising funds, " said Aso told delegates in Davos.
And Mr Aso has chosen Shoichi Nakagawa, a potential budget-buster like himself, as finance minister.
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Many people blame the Prime Minister Taro Aso for allowing the recession to get worse.
Prime Minister Taro Aso has promised public spending to soften the impact of the recession.
Since he became prime minister, however, Mr Aso has been on his best behaviour.
Mr Aso also appears to crave the prestige of attending the G8 summit in Italy in July.
Throughout his tenure, Mr Aso has cleverly used his power to dissolve the Diet to his advantage.
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In the end, it will probably be Mr Aso's mediocre performance that administers the coup de grace.
Finance Minister Taro Aso is in no position again to test the patience of the floating free world.
Mr Aso, more hawkish than Mr Fukuda, is congenial and fairly popular, having worked the party's grass-roots organisations.
"We are at a crossroads of a very, very historical nature, " Aso said.
Two members of Mr Aso's cabinet have been accused of accepting illegal donations.
Announcing the three-year aid package, Aso said Asian countries could lead the world out of recession through closer economic cooperation.
Unfortunately, the wrangle between the UCI and ASO means that passport information will not be used in this year's Tour.
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This is a result of a simmering feud between the Tour's organiser and owner, ASO, and cycling's international governing body, the UCI.
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In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned of a "very high possibility" the U.N. would level economic sanctions against North Korea.
Yet Kuroda may be considered a better all-round fit with the various requirements set out by Abe and Aso in recent weeks.
The more outspoken Mr Aso, the new foreign minister, is, as far as the diplomats under him are concerned, a mounting liability.
With the opposition in disarray, Mr Aso has the luxury of choice.
But the day he sacked the general, Mr Aso could not resist picking up a volume of similar views from a Tokyo bookstore.
Aso said late Tuesday that he plans to submit an extra budget to parliament to finance stimulus spending but has not disclosed a price tag.
Colleagues say the best candidate is Taro Aso, the foreign minister.
But Aso warned that stable economic growth could only be achieved if the U.S. curbed overconsumption and urged countries to reduce their dependency on overseas exports.
At the time of the cabinet reshuffle, Yoshiro Mori, one of the LDP's grand old men, foisted Taro Aso onto Mr Fukuda as the party's new secretary-general.
This is bad news for Mr Aso and the LDP.
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But for Mr Aso, Mr Kingston says, the incident has swiftly turned into a high-wire act in which he must reassure Japan's neighbours without destroying his own conservative base.
On Tuesday the Japanese prime minister, Taro Aso, said that Germany's reluctance to use public spending aggressively stemmed from its lack of understanding of the importance of fiscal mobilisation.
Taro Aso easily won an election to become leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and was sworn in as prime minister, the country's third new leader in two years.
So much so that the sort of boom that would be needed to bring them back into employment is aso the sort of boom that would set off the inflation alarms.
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