In Japan, ruling Democratic Party lawmakers manoeuvred today to pick a new leader. Conservative Finance Minister Naoto Kan party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa is in the fray to replace unpopular Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who quit yesterday ahead of an election. The Democrats will vote tomorrow to pick a new leader. The political turmoil in the country could delay efforts to thrash out plans to cut Japan's bulging public debt and craft a strategy to engineer economic growth in an ageing society.