TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has picked a like-minded fiscal conservative, Katsuya Okada, as finance minister in his cabinet due to be unveiled on Friday, local media reported.
Jiji news agency said Okada, 58, formerly the ruling party secretary general, had accepted the finance portfolio, which will be key as Japan grapples with the yen's sharp rise and a public debt twice the size of the $5 trillion economy.
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