TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has picked a like-minded fiscal conservative as finance minister in his cabinet due to be unveiled on Friday, local media reported.
Private broadcasters TBS and Fuji TV said on Thursday that former ruling party secretary general Katsuya Okada, 58, will take the finance portfolio as Japan's economy grapples with the yen's sharp rise and public debt that is twice the size of its $5 trillion economy.
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