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Naoto Kan has become Japan's sixth prime minister in five years after being overwhelmingly elected as his party's leader to replace Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned along with his cabinet .Mr Kan, 63, will seek to refocus the party and the electorate's attention on DPJ policy priorities like breaking the decision-making power of the senior bureaucracy, reviving the domestic economy, balancing of Japanese relations between US and China and boosting family welfare. Former premier Hatoyama agreed to go as his approval ratings collapsed below 20 per cent, following his reneging on an election promise to prevent the US Marines' Futenma airbase being relocated within Okinawa.
