TOKYO, September 3 (RIA Novosti) -Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced Wednesday the country’s new government.
Two-thirds of Prime Minister’s Shinzo Abe new ministers, five of them women, are newly appointed. However, six key ministers from the previous Cabinet, including Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, have kept their positions.
Later on Wednesday, after Emperor Akihito’s approval ceremony, the new Cabinet will be officially considered formed.
The previous Cabinet remained in power for 617 days – the longest in the history of Japan since World War II. Abe’s current reshuffle is aimed at re-energizing his economic policy as well as his social and political reforms.
