Top DPJ execs reject Watanabe for BOJ deputy governor

Top DPJ execs reject Watanabe for BOJ deputy governor

TOKYO, Japan - Top Democratic Party of Japan officials -- (from L to R) President Ichiro Ozawa, Acting President Naoto Kan and Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama -- attend a meeting of senior party executives at the party headquarters in Tokyo on April 8 where they rejected the government's nomination of Hiroshi Watanabe, a former vice finance minister for international affairs, for the post of Bank of Japan deputy governor.

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