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Japan ex-PM Fukuda, advocate for China ties, dies at 90

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 26 October 2026, 16:59 UTC ·8 sec listen

Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s former prime minister and a proponent of closer ties with China, has died at 90. Born in 1936, he grew up in a political family in Gunma, northwest of Tokyo in Japan.

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