Changes loom in Japan cabinet
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Your support makes all the difference.TOKYO (Reuter) - Japan's Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, is expected to replace the Finance Minister, Tsutomu Hata, as part of a cabinet reshuffle next week, Japanese newspapers said yesterday. They said Mr Hata, in office for just over a year, would leave the government to take over formal leadership of a new breakaway faction in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan since 1955.
The reshuffle, likely on 11 or 12 December, is a routine measure normally carried out at the end of a prime minister's first year in office. Mr Miyazawa took over in November 1991.
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