TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Wednesday he and his powerful party No. 2 would resign after a slide in the polls threatened their party's chances in an election expected next month. Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks at the party's annual convention in Tokyo in this January 16, 2010 file photo. (REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/Files) The yen sank to a two-week low against the dollar after Hatoyama became the fourth Japanese leader to leave office in a year or less, with some investors worried that political instability would make Japan's weak economy more dependent on the Bank of Japan's easy monetary policy. Calls built up in Hatoyama's Democratic Party of...
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