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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 14, 2009 shows Japanese Minister of Finance Shoichi Nakagawa giving a press conference at the end of a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Rome. Shoichi Nakagawa said on February 17, 2009 he would quit after triggering a political storm by appearing to be drunk at a Group of Seven meeting on the global economic crisis. Shoichi Nakagawa, a close ally of unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso, was incoherent and slurred his speech at a news conference on Saturday after the G7 talks in Rome, prompting calls for his sacking. AFP PHOTO / FILES / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)