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TOKYO: Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to visit a hospital Thursday, a day after announcing his resignation, because he feels unwell, news reports said.
Abe will visit a hospital in Tokyo, the Kyodo news agency reported quoting an unnamed government source.
The top government spokesman suggested Wednesday after Abe's announcement that health reasons may have been partly behind the decision.
"We were worried. Prime Minister Abe was always assessing whether his health can withstand the hard schedule and pressure of a prime minister," Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano told reporters then.
Abe has been under intense pressure since his party suffered a heavy defeat in July upper house elections after a wave of scandals involving his ministers and public anger over mismanagement of the pension system.
The premier is also struggling to renew legislation underpinning Japanese military support for US forces operating in Afghanistan, with the opposition pledging to oppose it. - AFP/ac
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