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**allaboutauto.us** · 06-04-2010, 05:35 PM

Jun 4, 2010
Kan elected Japan PM

By Kwan Weng Kin, Japan Correspondent

Mr Kan reacts after winning the Democratic Party of Japan party election. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

TOKYO - JAPAN'S lower house of parliament on Friday voted in former finance minister Naoto Kan as prime minister, replacing Yukio Hatoyama who resigned for mishandling a dispute over a US base. Mr Kan was set to become prime minister of Asia's biggest economy after he won the presidency of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party of Japan earlier on Friday.

Mr Kan, who was also a deputy premier in the previous cabinet, scored 291 out of 420 party lawmakers' valid votes against 129 for the only other candidate, little-known Osaka lower house legislator Shinji Tarutoko. The upper house will vote later, but the result is largely ceremonial because the more powerful lower house can override its decision if needed. -- AFP. AP

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allaboutauto.us Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 454 Senior Member	Jun 4, 2010 Kan elected Japan PM By Kwan Weng Kin, Japan Correspondent Mr Kan reacts after winning the Democratic Party of Japan party election. -- PHOTO: REUTERS TOKYO - JAPAN'S lower house of parliament on Friday voted in former finance minister Naoto Kan as prime minister, replacing Yukio Hatoyama who resigned for mishandling a dispute over a US base. Mr Kan was set to become prime minister of Asia's biggest economy after he won the presidency of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party of Japan earlier on Friday. Mr Kan, who was also a deputy premier in the previous cabinet, scored 291 out of 420 party lawmakers' valid votes against 129 for the only other candidate, little-known Osaka lower house legislator Shinji Tarutoko. The upper house will vote later, but the result is largely ceremonial because the more powerful lower house can override its decision if needed. -- AFP. AP
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