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Friday, 14 January 2011

Japanese PM names new ministers

01-14-2011 13:59 BJT

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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to appoint a fiscal hawk to a key post and replace his deputy in a cabinet revamp.

Kaoru Yosano, an advocate of raising the 5 percent sales tax, will be an economics minister.

The Prime Minister also appointed former administrative reform minister Yukio Edano as his chief cabinet secretary, while retaining Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Foreign Minister

Seiji Maehara and banking minister Shozaburo Jimi.

Kan reshuffled his cabinet in a bid to smooth lawmaking in a divided parliament and tackle reforms to rein in public debt.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei |Source: CNTV.CN

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