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Post by bot on Sept 12, 2011 22:09:24 GMT -5
Japan names new industry minister: reports HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Former Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano is to be named as the country's next industry minister, the Nikkei business daily reported Monday. Edano will replace Yoshio Hachiro, who resigned Saturday after only eight days as minister of a portfolio which has regulatory oversight of Japan's nuclear industry, after referring to the townships around the leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as "a town of death" and jesting with reporters about radiation in a manner that was reportedly inappropriate. Edano was known as the government's chief spokesmen during the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
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