The Finance Minister is head of government

The Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda has been appointed the new chairman of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and thus becomes the new prime minister of the country.

Following the resignation of Prime Minister Naoto Kan was the 54-year-old Noda on Monday in a second ballot the most votes from the DPJ members. According to the political tradition in Japan, he is expected on Tuesday by the Parliament elected the new prime minister. The party has a majority in the lower house of the relevant national parliament.


Noda is the sixth prime minister in five years. He sat down in the runoff election for the post of chairman of the Democratic Party of Japan to trade ministers Banri Kaieda. Japan is struggling with the consequences of the devastating earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear disaster of Fukushima.

Banri Kaieda Noda is considered sober advocate of austerity. It is not expected that he, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) fundamentally new hosts. However, it also tends to the nuclear disaster in more than Fukushima Kan to put the energy to continue on nuclear power.

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