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Finance chief wins Japan party vote
Naoto Kan has been elected head of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), setting
the stage for him to succeed Yukio Hatoyama as the country's next prime minister.
Kan, who served as finance minister and deputy prime minister in Hatoyama's cabinet,
won the backing of 290 out of 420 DPJ lawmakers in a vote on Friday.
The only other candidate for the job, little-known Osaka lower house legislator
Shinji Tarutoko, won 129 votes.
Later on Friday the Japanese parliament is expected to confirm Kan as the country's new
prime minister, its fifth in less than four years.
His appointment is regarded as a virtual certainty because the DPJ holds a majority in
the more powerful lower house of parliament.
Aljazeera.net (Friday, June 04, 2010)
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