Both the upper and lower houses of Japan's parliament elected Finance Minister Naoto Kan to be the nation's new prime minister Friday, following the resignation of Yukio Hatoyama from the post earlier this week.
Kan is the country's fifth prime minister since 2006. The Diet, Japan's parliament, voted after the Democratic Party of Japan tapped Kan to lead the party earlier Friday.
Well, it is a reasonable pick. Naoto has been a pretty experienced and out-spoken politician. I think he's gonna do a fine job. The problem is that he COULD only just become the PM for a few seconds IF the Democratic party loses an amount of seats during the elections coming soon.