Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will draft the son of ex-premier Junichiro Ko...
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will draft the son of ex-premier Junichiro Koizumi in a broad cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday that will keep allies in key posts, media said, as Abe faces a tax rise and aims to amend the pacifist constitution.
It could also bolster Koizumi’s chance of competing to succeed Abe when the prime minister’s term as ruling Liberal Democratic Party chief ends in September 2021. Abe, although drafting more than a dozen new faces, is set to retain his close allies, Finance Minister Taro Aso, 78, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, 70, media reported.“Abe is drafting 13 new ministers but many in the cabinet are close allies,” said University of Tokyo professor Yu Uchiyama. “There is not such a feeling of freshness.”
Abe kept veteran lawmaker Toshihiro Nikai, 80, as LDP secretary general and Fumio Kishida - also considered a possible heir to the premier - as party policy chief, the party announced.Several likely ministers are also seen as possible contenders to succeed Abe, including his right-hand aide Suga. Another Abe ally and potential future premier, former health, labor and welfare minister Katsunobu Kato, was set to return to his old post, media said.
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