Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan will be the next finance minister, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday after accepting the resignation of Hirohisa Fujii due to his poor health. Hatoyama told reporters that Kan, 63, accepted his offer of the new post. Hatoyama also said the latest personnel matters were also approved by Ichiro Ozawa, the powerful secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. (Japan Times)
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