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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Slideshow Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared WRAPUP 1-BP chief vows to stay, progress seen in oil spill 1:09am EDT BP chief vows to stay as progress seen in oil spill | Video 1:16am EDT Pope has unplanned meeting with Cypriot Islamic leader | Video 05 Jun 2010 Euro zone faces zero growth: Roubini 05 Jun 2010 Freddie Mac, FHLB, Fannie Mae 2010 note calendar 04 Jun 2010 Circumcision may prevent sex-related penis injuries 04 Jun 2010 Rarefied art world gets reality TV competition 03 Jun 2010 UPDATE 1-Bristol drug extends survival in deadly skin cancer 05 Jun 2010 Verizon may be alone in following AT&T rate change 04 Jun 2010 Israel boards Gaza aid ship as blockade criticized | Video 05 Jun 2010 Bangladesh lifts Facebook ban 2:25am EDT UPDATE 1-Bristol drug extends survival in deadly skin cancer 05 Jun 2010 Rarefied art world gets reality TV competition 03 Jun 2010 Pfizer recalls IV antibiotics, nausea medications 03 Jun 2010 Bird washers hard at work as Gulf spill toll grows 05 Jun 2010 Financial advisers need advice too 04 Jun 2010 Drunk sleeps on politician's drive 04 Jun 2010 Injuries have Brazilian players in two minds 05 Jun 2010 North Korean envoy warns war could erupt soon 03 Jun 2010 Euro zone faces zero growth: Roubini 05 Jun 2010 Next Japan PM to tap fiscal reformers Linda Sieg TOKYO Sun Jun 6, 2010 2:39am EDT Factboxes Factbox: Recent comments by Japan PM-to-be Kan Fri, Jun 4 2010 Factbox: Five facts about Japan finmin contender Noda Fri, Jun 4 2010 Related News Japan's Kan may be more pragmatic premier Thu, Jun 3 2010 Instant View: Japan Democrats pick Finmin Kan as next PM Fri, Jun 4 2010 Japan PM-elect Kan quotes from news conference Fri, Jun 4 2010 Related Video Kan elected Japan's new PM Fri, Jun 4 2010 1 / 2 Japan's Prime Minister-to-be Naoto Kan speaks to journalists during a news conference at the Democratic Party of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo June 4, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new leader, Naoto Kan, will pick a fellow fiscal conservative for the key finance minister post and a critic of an unpopular powerbroker as his party No. 2 in a bid for voter support in an election next month. World | Japan Kan, Japan's fifth leader in three years, has improved his Democratic Party's chances in an upper house poll it needs to win to avoid policy paralysis, and raised investor hopes that he will rein in a public debt that equals twice the country's GDP. Support for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has jumped since it voted in Kan on Friday to replace Yukio Hatoyama, who quit as premier after just eight months in office, his ratings shredded by indecision and broken promises. A voter survey by the Mainichi newspaper showed 63 percent had positive expectations for Kan's new government, to be launched on Tuesday. That was in line with other surveys. Thirty-four percent planned to vote for the DPJ in an upper house election expected in July that the ruling bloc needs to win to avoid policy paralysis as Japan struggles to rein in a huge debt and sustain growth despite a fast-aging population. That was a rise from 22 percent last month and twice the figure for the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), ousted last year in a historic election that ended more than 50 years of almost non-stop rule by the conservative party. Hopes that Kan, a former grassroots activist, will tackle Japan's massive public debt will be bolstered promoting deputy finance minister Yoshihiko Noda to the top finance portfolio, since Noda agrees that fixing tattered state finances is vital. Kan told reporters late on Saturday that he had asked National Strategy Minister Yoshito Sengoku to be chief cabinet secretary -- a critical portfolio -- and media said he would probably make fiscal reformer Koichiro Genba DPJ policy chief. Both are positive about raising Japan's 5 percent sales tax in the future to fund the bulging costs of an aging society and to reduce dependence on borrowing to fund spending. "We promised not to raise the sales tax until the next general election so we cannot. But after the next general election, we must speedily carry out drastic tax reform including the sales tax and we must state that in our manifesto for the upper house election," Genba said in a TV debate. An election for the lower house must be held by late 2013. CHANGE IN PARTY NO. 2 Kan also said he would appoint administrative reform minister Yukio Edano to replace campaign strategist Ichiro Ozawa as party secretary-general, the party's No.2 executive. It was the latest sign that Kan is distancing himself from the powerful but scandal-tainted lawmaker. The extent of Ozawa's influence matters not only to voters worried that he is reviving the pork-barrel spending and vested interest politics perfected by the LDP during its half-century rule, but to financial markets concerned about Japan's debt. "We must show the markets that our finances are sustainable," Genba said in the TV debate with opposition party lawmakers. Ozawa, who leads the largest bloc of lawmakers in the Democratic Party, has opposed a clear statement on the sales tax ahead of the upper house election for fear of losing votes. Analysts said Ozawa, a former LDP heavyweight who left the then-ruling party in 1993 and spent the subsequent years striving to create a viable alternative, was unlikely to be completely sidelined despite lacking an official post. That could spell headaches for Kan, sooner if Ozawa schemes behind the scenes, and later if the Democrats fail to perform well in the upper house election. In a nod to the need for party unity, Kan appointed Shinji Tarutoko, who competed with Kan for the party leadership last week, to the party's post in charge of parliamentary affairs. In the leadership contest by the party's lawmakers, Tarutoko garnered about 30 percent of votes, many from Ozawa supporters. The party will stay in power regardless of the outcome of the upper house election, by virtue of its huge majority in parliament's lower house. But without an outright majority in the upper chamber, it is likely to have to revamp its coalition with the tiny conservative People's New Party to get the votes needed to pass laws smoothly. Media said Kan would keep many ministers, including Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, in their posts. Okada faces the tough task of helping Kan keep ties with close ally the United States on track, since an agreement to keep a U.S. airbase on Okinawa island -- forged amid controversy in Hatoyama's final days -- faces stiff local opposition. 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