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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Kishida replaces 14 Cabinet members, adds key veterans

The Yomiuri Shimbun / Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, third from right, poses with Liberal Democratic Party executive members at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday overhauled his Cabinet, replacing 14 ministers in a reshuffle aiming to deal with some of "the greatest postwar difficulties."

Kishida kept only five ministers in place: Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno; Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi; Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki; Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Tetsuo Saito; and economic revitalization minister Daishiro Yamagiwa. Saito is the only minister from Komeito, the Liberal Democratic Party's coalition partner.

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