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Tokyo talks hitch

Japan's governing coalition, which is teetering on the brink of collapse, suspended talks yesterday aimed at papering over a gaping rift and agreeing on a successor to the Prime Minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, Reuter reports from Tokyo.

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