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The Press : Sayonara, Hosokawa

It’s getting to be a habit with Japanese prime ministers--Morihiro Hosokawa on Friday became the fourth of Tokyo’s last five leaders to step down over allegations of political scandal or corruption--and cartoonists must be straining to come up with new angles. But once again they caught the agony and embarrassment of a nation with trouble at the top.

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