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New Japanese Minister Steps Down

The resignation will be seen as a setback for new Prime Minister Taro Aso, who took office on Wednesday.

Mr Nakayama was criticised over a series of controversial remarks. He called Japan's largest teachers' union a "cancer" in the education system.

He also angered Japan's indigenous Ainu people last week, when he described the country as ethnically homogeneous.

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