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Bloomberg
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kept his economic team including Finance Minister Taro Aso and added several first-time cabinet members in a reshuffle following his election last month to a third-straight term as ruling party leader.
The Japanese prime minister, who’s in position to become Japan’s longest-serving premier, has said he would prioritize a divisive effort to change the pacifist Article 9 of the seven-decade-old constitution, as well as shaking up the social security system to deal with the rapidly aging population. The next parliamentary session may start at the end of the month, according to local media reports.
In advance of an upper house election next year, Abe appointed close associate Akira Amari to an electoral strategy post in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a political rehabilitation after he resigned over a financial scandal in 2016. LDP Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai and policy chief Fumio Kishida remain in their posts.