Public broadcaster NHK said earlier Aso had reached agreement on the poll timing in a meeting with executives from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The LDP official said the lower house would be dissolved on July 21.
Some Japanese media questioned whether the election timing was a done deal, noting opposition to the move was strong inside both Aso's LDP and the junior party in the ruling coalition.
Moves within the LDP to dump Aso were expected to grow after the ruling party and its junior partner lost their majority in a Tokyo assembly vote on Sunday. The opposition Democratic Party won the most seats.
A Democratic Party victory in the national parliament's lower house would end half a century of nearly unbroken rule by the business-friendly LDP and raise the chance of resolving political deadlocks as Japan tries to recover from its worst recession since World War Two.
Aso told ruling party lawmakers on Sunday he planned to dissolve the lower house as early as Tuesday and was set to unveil that plan on Monday, Kyodo news agency had reported earlier.
Many in the LDP and its junior coalition partner, the New Komeito, are opposed to holding an election too soon after their defeat in the Tokyo poll, seen as a barometer for a national election due by October.
"It's clear if parliament is dissolved now, the result would be the same as the Tokyo election," the New Komeito's policy chief, Natsuo Yamaguchi, told a TV Asahi program.
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The LDP official said the lower house would be dissolved on July 21.Some Japanese media questioned whether the election timing was a done deal, noting opposition to the move was strong inside both Aso's LDP and the junior party in the ruling coalition.
Moves within the LDP to dump Aso were expected to grow after the ruling party and its junior partner lost their majority in a Tokyo assembly vote on Sunday. The opposition Democratic Party won the most seats.
A Democratic Party victory in the national parliament's lower house would end half a century of nearly unbroken rule by the business-friendly LDP and raise the chance of resolving political deadlocks as Japan tries to recover from its worst recession since World War Two.
Aso told ruling party lawmakers on Sunday he planned to dissolve the lower house as early as Tuesday and was set to unveil that plan on Monday, Kyodo news agency had reported earlier.
Many in the LDP and its junior coalition partner, the New Komeito, are opposed to holding an election too soon after their defeat in the Tokyo poll, seen as a barometer for a national election due by October.
"It's clear if parliament is dissolved now, the result would be the same as the Tokyo election," the New Komeito's policy chief, Natsuo Yamaguchi, told a TV Asahi program.
For further details visit as : www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE56B01A20090713
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