Weary Japan finance minister wants to quit, PM says stay: media

2010/01/05 05:00:55 @Reuters: World News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii offered to resign for health reasons but the prime minister asked the veteran lawmaker to stay on to steer the fragile economy to recovery, local media reported on Tuesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=I6OgMy7Nvfs:9XPll8aaKJI: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=I6OgMy7Nvfs:9XPll8aaKJI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=I6OgMy7Nvfs:9XPll8aaKJI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=I6OgMy7Nvfs:9XPll8aaKJI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=I6OgMy7Nvfs:9XPll8aaKJI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/I6OgMy7Nvfs" height="1" width="1"/
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