Japanese Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa fixes his headphone during the
35th Asian Development Bank (ABD) board of directors annual meeting in
Shanghai May 11, 2002. Speaking in Japanese to an annual meeting of the ADB
in Shanghai, 80-year-old Shiokawa mistakenly said Tokyo was ready to provide
$500 billion to the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction at the ADB. But his
prepared speech in English distributed after he spoke said Japan would make
a contribution of $50 million to the fund. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

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