New Japan PM Picks Cabinet With Eye On Opposition - Wall Street Journal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011, 9:29 A.M. ET

-- New Japan Prime Minister chooses Cabinet aimed at uniting ruling party, courting opposition

-- Yoshihiko Noda picks former parliamentary affairs chief for high-profile finance minister post

-- Noda says top priorities are quake reconstruction, controlling nuclear crisis, stimulating economic growth

(Adds comments from finance and trade ministers in 8th-10th and 15th paragraphs)

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, chose a Cabinet of relatively unknown lawmakers on Friday, but one that reflects his attempts to promote party unity and court the opposition.

Noda said post-quake reconstruction, getting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis under control and stimulating economic growth ...

-- New Japan Prime Minister chooses Cabinet aimed at uniting ruling party, courting opposition

-- Yoshihiko Noda picks former parliamentary affairs chief for high-profile finance minister post

-- Noda says top priorities are quake reconstruction, controlling nuclear crisis, stimulating economic growth

(Adds comments from finance and trade ministers in 8th-10th and 15th paragraphs)

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, chose a Cabinet of relatively unknown lawmakers on Friday, but one that reflects his attempts to promote party unity and court the opposition.

Noda said post-quake reconstruction, getting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis under control and stimulating economic growth ...

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