Japan's PM Greets World on YouTube

January 2, 2008 By HIROKO TABUCHI , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent bid to raise his country's international profile.

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