TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will call an election for Sept. 11, his coalition partner said on Monday after parliament's upper house rejected bills to privatise the postal system -- the core of Koizumi's reforms.
The prime minister's bitterly divided Liberal Democratic Party is in danger of losing at the polls for the powerful lower house, politicians and analysts say.
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