Japan to Elect Hirohisa Fujii as Next Finance Minister

At 77 years old, Hirohisa Fujii was planning on retiring this summer, but it seems the DPJ is calling him back to help them in approving their new stimulus package. Fujii boasts a pretty beefy track record, working senior government jobs which include work at Japan's Ministry of Finance back in the 90's. If elected, he insists that he will find and get rid of wasteful spending.

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What does this mean?
With the DPJ calling back political big wigs they can get their stimulus package up and running, which will cost around 77 trillion yen in the first fiscal year of 2010, rising to an annual 16.8 trillion by the fiscal year in 2013. The plan promises to give money to families with children, cut highway tolls, gasoline taxes, and more aid to the unemployed.