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Japan's PM Abe reshuffles Cabinet in bid to create fresh image
TOKYO - The following is the lineup of a new Cabinet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched on Wednesday.
Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, age 64
Deputy Prime Minister
Finance Minister
Minister for financial services
Minister in charge of overcoming deflation
Taro Aso 78 (R)
Internal Affairs and Communications Minister
Minister in charge of the social security and tax number system
Sanae Takaichi 58 (F)
Justice Minister
Katsuyuki Kawai 56
Foreign Minister
Toshimitsu Motegi 63
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister
Minister in charge of education rebuilding
Koichi Hagiuda 56
Health, Labor and Welfare Minister
Minister in charge of working style reform
Katsunobu Kato 63
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister
Taku Eto 59
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister
Minister in charge of industrial competitiveness
Minister in charge of international exposition
Minister in charge of economic cooperation with Russia
Minister in charge of the response to the economic impact caused by the nuclear accident
Minister for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation
Isshu Sugawara 57
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister
Minister in charge of water cycle policy
Kazuyoshi Akaba 61
Environment Minister
Minister for nuclear emergency preparedness
Shinjiro Koizumi 38
Defense Minister
Taro Kono 56
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Minister in charge of alleviating the burden of the bases in Okinawa
Minister for the abduction issue
Yoshihide Suga 70 (R)
Minister for reconstruction
Minister in charge of comprehensive policy coordination for revival from the nuclear accident at Fukushima
Kazunori Tanaka 70
Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of administrative reform
Minister in charge of civil service reform
Minister in charge of building national resilience
Minister for disaster management
Ryota Takeda 51
Minister in charge of promoting dynamic engagement of all citizens
Minister in charge of territorial issues
Minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs
Minister for consumer affairs and food safety
Minister for measures for declining birthrate
Minister for ocean policy
Seiichi Eto 71
Minister for science and technology policy
Minister in charge of information technology policy
Minister for "Cool Japan" strategy
Minister for intellectual property strategy
Minister for space policy
Naokazu Takemoto 78
Minister in charge of economic revitalization
Minister in charge of promoting social security for all generations
Minister for economic and fiscal policy
Yasutoshi Nishimura 56
Minister for regional revitalization
Minister for regulatory reform
Seigo Kitamura 72
Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games
Minister in charge of women's empowerment
Minister for gender equality
Seiko Hashimoto 54 (F)
NOTES: Akaba is a member of the Komeito party. The others are from the Liberal Democratic Party.
(F) denotes female ministers.
(R) denotes Cabinet members who retained their current posts.