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In this scenario, Taro Aso, the foreign minister, is perhaps the favourite to succeed, with Sadakazu Tanigaki, a former finance minister, also a likely contender.
ECONOMIST: Japan
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Mr Snow is due to have talks with Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki on Monday night to discuss the country's reform agenda, including privatising the postal system.
BBC: NEWS | Business | Snow to focus on US-China tension
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Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said threats remained three years after the September 11 attacks and urged other nations to implement global standards to combat money-laundering and terror funding.
CNN: Finance ministers urge vigilance
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As it is, both the finance minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, and the interior minister, Heizo Takenaka, this week urged the bank not to move, saying that deflation was not yet definitively beaten.
ECONOMIST: The case for keeping interest rates at zero evaporates
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The finance minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, is less disingenuous.
ECONOMIST: Japan's succession: After he's gone | The
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This week, the LDP leader, Sadakazu Tanigaki, told the Wall Street Journal that the party may not continue to co-operate with Mr Noda over the consumption tax (the bill has yet to clear the upper house).
ECONOMIST: An unusual militancy is creeping into mainstream politics
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Further, if the full complement of DPJ Diet men who voted no were to leave the party, Noda would thereby lose a majority in parliament, exposing him to the very high risk that his main enter-party rival, Tanigaki Sadakazu, leader of the LDP, will force a vote of confidence in the (now) minority cabinet, in order to force a new general election, from which the LDP might hope to regain power.
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