Kan, Sengoku at Diet session

Kan, Sengoku at Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku talk during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 2010, the final day of an extra Diet session. Sengoku told reporters he will do his best in both posts -- chief Cabinet secretary and justice minister -- after saying he may concentrate on the justice minister role, amid increasing pressure from opposition parties to leave the Cabinet.

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