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Former Japanese finance minister found dead

Former Japanese finance minister found dead

Former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned from his post after appearing intoxicated at a news conference earlier this year, was found dead in his home Sunday, police told CNN.He was 56. Nakagawa blamed his behavior at the G-7 briefing in Rome in February on having taken too much medicine, Kyodo reported at the time full story
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