Premier faces host of tough hurdles
By Linda Sieg and Leika Kihara | China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-30 08:47
Post-tsunami reconstruction, debt among challenges
TOKYO - Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, elected by Japan's ruling party on Monday to become the nation's sixth prime minister in five years, faces a long list of challenges from rebuilding from a devastating tsunami and the nuclear crisis it triggered to reining in huge public debt.
Following are some of the challenges Noda faces:
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