The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, has officially assumed the post of head of government, taking on the dual challenge of keeping the Covid-19 pandemic under control and reviving the national economy. After officially presenting the new government, the Japanese premier announced that Japan will hold general elections on October 31st. “We need to fight the coronavirus and bring social and economic activities back to normal. We need to build a new economy, a new lifestyle, a new era. I want to work with people towards this goal,” the prime minister said in the first. press conference after his inauguration. “He regained people’s trust, which is the foundation of democracy”. As many as 13 of the 20 ministers of the new Japanese government have never assumed a ministerial office before, but the most important departments have been entrusted to figures like Kishida who are close to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The premier, in particular, reconfirmed Toshimitsu Motegi at the head of the Foreign Ministry and Nobuo Kishi, Abe’s younger brother, at the Ministry of Defense.
Kishida has decided to appoint Conservative MP Shunichi Suzuki as Minister of Finance. 68-year-old Suzuki, who in the past has already headed the Ministry of the Environment, takes over from 81-year-old Taro Aso, who instead has taken on the post of vice-president of the Liberal Democratic Party in the context of the reshuffle of the leadership of the Party. Akira Amari, former 72-year-old chairman of the Party’s tax systems research commission, has assumed the post of general secretary previously held by Toshihiro Nikai. Former Interior and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi, who, like Kishida, is close to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was presided over by the Party’s Research Council. 54-year-old Tatsuo Fukuda – son and grandson of former prime ministers – has become president of the General Council of the Pld, the party’s main decision-making body. 59-year-old Hirokazu Matsuno has been entrusted with the position of chief cabinet secretary and spokesperson for the next executive.
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