Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s Cabinet on Wednesday named former health ministry bureaucrat Takeshi Erikawa president of the National Personnel Authority at an extraordinary Cabinet meeting Wednesday, and his first task will be to attend deliberations on a bill to cut civil servants’ pay.
The decision came after the Upper House on Wednesday endorsed the appointment. The Lower House gave the go-ahead the previous day.
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