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Ministers need longer terms to build international presence: Kan
By - 02-07-2010 04:10 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online

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IQALUIT, Canada (Kyodo) Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Saturday that Cabinet members should serve for at least three or four years to give Japan more of a presence on the international stage.
"It would be difficult to engage in frank discussions" with other world leaders if ministers in Japan are changing over and over, Kan told a news conference after the two-day finance meeting of the Group of Seven industrial powers in Canada's far north.



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