The Japanese parliament's lower house voted in Yoshihiko Noda on 29 August 201 as the nation's sixth prime minister in five years. Yoshihiko Noda won the runoff vote against Banri Kaieda in the leadership election.He succeeded outgoing Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan who resigned on 26 August 2011 after almost 15 months in office.
Japan’s new Prime Minister is faced with the task of rebuilding from the massive March 2011 tsunami that devastated the northeast coast and ending the nuclear crisis it triggered. He also has to to address a myriad of economic ills including a strong yen and a ballooning public debt.
Yoshihiko Noda belongs to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). He is a member of the House of Representatives (lower house) in the Diet (national legislature). In 1993 he was elected to the Diet for first time representing Chiba's Lower House District 4 as a member of the now-defunct Japan New Party.
He later joined the DPJ and served as its Diet affairs chief as well as head of the party's public relations office. Noda acted as senior vice finance minister when the DPJ won control of the Diet in September 2009.
Noda was appointed as Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Naoto Kan in June 2010.
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