Standing here, I cannot help recalling several Japanese friends I know. They are Mr. Noburu Takeshita, Mr. Toshiki Kaifu, Mr. Keizo Obuchi, Mr. Yoshiro Mori, Mr. Yasuo Fukuda and Mr. Yohei Kono.

来到这里，我不禁想起我认识的几位日本朋友，他们是竹下登、海部俊树、小渊惠三、森喜朗、福田康夫、河野洋平先生等。

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His head-to-head with Japan's Kono Yohei will last only 20 minutes.

CNN: Relegated to the Sidelines?

But any replacement the leading candidates are Foreign Minister Kono Yohei, Mori faction leader Koizumi Junichiro and former foreign minister Komura Masahiko is likely to be a virtual Mori clone.

CNN: Down In Flames

Mori's only real rivals were Foreign Minister Kono Yohei (who once was LDP party president when the party was out of power and so is the only LDP president never to be prime minister) and Kato Koichi, who heads the second-largest Diet faction.

CNN: Taking Over