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Ex-PMs Kan, Hatoyama named as DPJ's supreme advisers
TOKYO, Sept. 5 Kyodo -
The Democratic Party of Japan decided Monday to name two former prime ministers, Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, as the ruling party's supreme advisers, part of efforts by the current leadership under new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to boost party unity, DPJ members said.
The ruling party will also set up a panel to review the taxation system and have former Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii head it, DPJ policy chief Seiji Maehara said.
In a bid to strengthen discussions with opposition parties, the ruling party picked former DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada as the leading executive member of the House of Representatives Budget Committee.
It is rare for a former secretary general of the ruling party to serve in the post, DPJ lawmakers said, adding that Okada is expected to play a key role in negotiating with the opposition bloc over issues such as the third extra budget for the current fiscal year.
The budget is needed to finance full-fledged work to rebuild areas affected by the March disaster that ravaged vast areas mainly in northeastern Japan.
The DPJ also tapped former Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda, who lost to Noda in the party's presidential election last week, as chief of the lower house Financial Affairs Committee, while picking former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka as chief of the lower house Foreign Affairs Committee.
Other party appointments for the upper house include Mitsuru Sakurai as chief of the House of Councillors policy board of the DPJ caucus. Sakurai will be replacing Yasuo Ichikawa, who became defense minister in Noda's Cabinet launched last Friday.
Kenji Hirata, secretary general of the DPJ's upper house caucus, and Yuichiro Hata, chairman of the upper house Diet affairs committee, will both retain their posts.
DPJ lawmakers say the influence of party power broker and former leader Ichiro Ozawa on the way Noda, currently DPJ head, handles his government is expected to be more conspicuous with three allies in key posts -- Hirata, Hata, and Azuma Koshiishi, secretary general and head of the DPJ's upper house caucus.
The upper house is controlled by opposition parties including the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, a situation that could prevent the ruling party from seeing key bills clear parliament.
The Democratic Party of Japan decided Monday to name two former prime ministers, Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, as the ruling party's supreme advisers, part of efforts by the current leadership under new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to boost party unity, DPJ members said.
The ruling party will also set up a panel to review the taxation system and have former Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii head it, DPJ policy chief Seiji Maehara said.
In a bid to strengthen discussions with opposition parties, the ruling party picked former DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada as the leading executive member of the House of Representatives Budget Committee.
It is rare for a former secretary general of the ruling party to serve in the post, DPJ lawmakers said, adding that Okada is expected to play a key role in negotiating with the opposition bloc over issues such as the third extra budget for the current fiscal year.
The budget is needed to finance full-fledged work to rebuild areas affected by the March disaster that ravaged vast areas mainly in northeastern Japan.
The DPJ also tapped former Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda, who lost to Noda in the party's presidential election last week, as chief of the lower house Financial Affairs Committee, while picking former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka as chief of the lower house Foreign Affairs Committee.
Other party appointments for the upper house include Mitsuru Sakurai as chief of the House of Councillors policy board of the DPJ caucus. Sakurai will be replacing Yasuo Ichikawa, who became defense minister in Noda's Cabinet launched last Friday.
Kenji Hirata, secretary general of the DPJ's upper house caucus, and Yuichiro Hata, chairman of the upper house Diet affairs committee, will both retain their posts.
DPJ lawmakers say the influence of party power broker and former leader Ichiro Ozawa on the way Noda, currently DPJ head, handles his government is expected to be more conspicuous with three allies in key posts -- Hirata, Hata, and Azuma Koshiishi, secretary general and head of the DPJ's upper house caucus.
The upper house is controlled by opposition parties including the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, a situation that could prevent the ruling party from seeing key bills clear parliament.
