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VOL. XXXIV NO. 91 (India facsimile VOL. 1 NO. 152) ** ASIA Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Spending advocate tapped in Japan
eeding Fujii as finance minister, popular Kan may seek a weaker yen but worry investors concerned about debt
By Alison Tudor
And h McCallum
TOKYO—Prime Minister
Yukio Hatoyama on Wednes-
day tapped as finance minis-
ter a colorful, charismatic poli-
tician who advocates more
spending, a weaker yen, and a
less powerful bureaucracy to
lift the economy. The move
may lift the government’s flag-
ging popularity but spook in-
vestors who are jittery about
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Japan’s swelling public debt.
Ic C) oe:Won2,500, Korea: JCT), (Incl Naoto Kan, one of Japan’s
most prominent and popular
politicians of the past decade,
will take over from Hirohisa
Fujii, who lasted less than
four months in office until re-
signing after being hospital-
ized for high blood pressure
and fatigue.
During the brief tenure of
the Hatoyama administra-
tion, Mr. Kan—who has held
the title of d