TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will call a snap election, public broadcaster NHK said on Monday after parliament's upper house rejected bills to privatise the postal system -- the core of his reform agenda.
Political analysts have said Koizumi's divided ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled for most of the past half century, was in danger of losing the election for parliament's powerful lower house.
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