Japan's PM makes key party appointments

Yoshihiko Noda (left), new prime minister of Japan and president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), chats with top party executives, policy chief Seiji Maehara (second left), secretary-general Azuma Koshiishi (third left), and parliamentary affairs chief Hirofumi Hirano, during their general meeting with the party's Diet members in Tokyo on Wednesday. DPJ lawmakers from both chambers of the Diet approved the appointment of key posts. Kazuhiro Nogi / Agence France-Presse