Tokyo: Naoto Kan was chosen as Japan's next prime minister by the lower house of parliament on Friday after he won in the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election.
Kan served as finance minister and deputy prime minister in prime minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet.
Japan's Cabinet resigned en masse early on Friday to clear the way for a ruling party vote to select a successor to former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned two days earlier.
Former Finance Minister Naoto Kan, a straight-talker with activist roots, was widely expected to succeed Hatoyama, who quit amid plunging approval ratings and public disappointment over his broken campaign promises.
The other candidate was little-known Shinji Tarutoko, chairman of the party's environmental committee, who has the backing of some younger party members and the largest faction led by the party's No 2, who also stepped down on Wednesday.
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