Kan picked as Japan's national strategy minister

2009/09/05 07:34:46 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister-elect Yukio Hatoyama said on Saturday he had picked Naoto Kan, a former health minister, to head a powerful new agency that will oversee the budget process and set policy priorities. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lNqCDOE6Kso:h0u1fWTAayI:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lNqCDOE6Kso:h0u1fWTAayI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=lNqCDOE6Kso:h0u1fWTAayI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lNqCDOE6Kso:h0u1fWTAayI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=lNqCDOE6Kso:h0u1fWTAayI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/lNqCDOE6Kso" height="1" width="1"/
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