Tokyo - Taro Aso, general secretary of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and former contender for the LDP helm, Tuesday expressed his intention to run for the party leadership in a bid to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
"I have an idea of what I have to do, and I'd like to execute it," Aso said at a press conference Tuesday.
The 67-year-old hawkish politician was seen as a forerunner to succeed Fukuda when he was appointed as the premier's right-hand man last month in a Cabinet reshuffle.
