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Hatoyama Japan's new PM, names Cabinet
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-16 17:28

Profiles of key members in new Japan Cabinet

The key members of Japan's new Cabinet appointed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama:

NAOTO KAN:

Hatoyama Japan's new PM, names Cabinet

Japan's newly-appointed minister in charge of strategic national planning Naoto Kan arrives at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo September 16, 2009.[Agencies]

Minister of National Strategic Bureau. A former student activist and patent attorney-turned lawmaker, Kan, 62, is best known for his highly applauded achievement as health minister in 1996 in revealing a government cover up of HIV-tainted blood products that caused thousands of hemophilia patients to contract AIDS.