Asia-Pacific
Japan finmin can't stay, successor almost set
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-01-06 20:40
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 (L-R) Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and National Strategy Bureau Chief Naoto Kan, Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano listen to a speech by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (not in picture) during a news conference at Hatoyama's official residence in Tokyo December 25, 2009. [Photo/Agencies] |
TOKYO: Hirohisa Fujii cannot be asked to stay on as Japan's finance minister and his successor is almost decided, Jiji news agency quoted an unidentified cabinet minister as saying on Wednesday.
Fujii, 77, has been reported as telling Hatoyama he wants to resign because he is suffering from health problems after weeks of wrangling over how to balance the deeply indebted country's budget without pushing the economy back into recession.
