Japan eyes new finance minister amid policy, political doubts

2010/01/06 00:37:18 @Reuters: World News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ailing finance minister looked set on Wednesday to quit, raising bond market concern about whether a successor would hold the line on spending in the face of a fragile economy and ballooning public debt. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zKG6cjXTkQU:9Won8zk2f1Q: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=zKG6cjXTkQU:9Won8zk2f1Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zKG6cjXTkQU:9Won8zk2f1Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zKG6cjXTkQU:9Won8zk2f1Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zKG6cjXTkQU:9Won8zk2f1Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/zKG6cjXTkQU" height="1" width="1"/
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