Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida changed his defence and overseas ministers on Wednesday (Sep 13), whereas growing the variety of ladies within the cupboard, in a significant reshuffle.
The alternative of the 2 key ministers, which got here as North Korea fired two ballistic missiles and tensions with China rose, was motivated by inside get together politics.
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi was succeeded by former justice minister Yoko Kamikawa, 70, considered one of 5 ladies within the new cupboard, authorities spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno informed reporters.
Kamikawa was justice minister when Japan executed 5 years in the past the chief and members of Aum Shinrikyo, sentenced to dying for his or her function within the deadly 1995 sarin assault on the Tokyo subway.
Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada was succeeded by Minoru Kihara, 54, who beforehand served as parliamentary secretary of defence.
Shunichi Suzuki retains his place as finance minister on this planet’s third-largest economic system.
Farm minister Tetsuro Nomura, who lately was accused of calling handled water launched from the stricken Fukushima plant “contaminated water”, was changed by Ichiro Miyashita, 65.
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