河野規制改革担当・加藤官房長官　菅内閣きょう発足

Kono Regulatory Reform, Secretary of State Kato, Suga Cabinet established today

The Chief Cabinet Secretary, Katsunobu Kato, will be the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, and the Minister of Defense will be Nobuo Kishi, the younger brother of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Emphasizing continuity from the Abe administration, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, and Minister of Economy, Finance and Revitalization Yasutoshi Nishimura will be reappointed. Defense Minister Taro Kono will be assigned to the Minister of Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform, who is in charge of regulatory reform that Mr. Suga attaches great importance to. 

Mr. Suga will be elected the 99th prime minister in the extraordinary Diet session for the prime minister on the afternoon of the 16th. After the certification ceremony at the Imperial Palace, the Kan Cabinet, a coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party, will be established on the same day.

Mr. Kato was one of Prime Minister Abe's aides and served as Chief Cabinet Secretary for two years and ten months under Mr. Suga, who is Chief Cabinet Secretary. Mr. Suga met Mr. Kato at a hotel in Tokyo on the night of the 15th and asked him to assume the post of Chief Cabinet Secretary. Mr. Kato replied, "If I am okay, I will do it well."

Ryota Takeda, Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, will be the Minister of General Affairs, Norihisa Tamura will be the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, and Kotaro Nogami will be the Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Takuya Hirai will re-enter the cabinet as a minister in charge of the digital field, such as the establishment of the "Digital Agency" that Mr. Suga advocated. Yoko Kamikawa will re-enter the Cabinet as Minister of Justice, and Hachiro Okonogi will re-enter the Cabinet as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission. In addition to Mr. Kishi and Mr. Nogami, Katsuei Hirasawa, Tetsushi Sakamoto, and Shinji Inoue will be the first to enter the cabinet. Koichi Hagiuda, Minister of Education, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Shinjiro Koizumi, Minister of the Environment, Seiko Hashimoto, Minister of the Olympics, and Komeito's Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will be reappointed. Mr. Kato is in charge of the abduction issue, and Mr. Nishimura is in charge of countermeasures against the new coronavirus. With the establishment of the Expo Minister, the number of ministers will increase by one to a total of 20.

Mr. Suga officially decided on the personnel of the party executives at the extraordinary general affairs meeting held at the party headquarters on the 15th. The key posts were assigned to the five factions that supported Mr. Suga in the presidential election. Toshihiro Nikai, the chairman of the Nikai faction who was the first to express his support, was reappointed, and Tsutomu Sato of the Aso faction was assigned as the chairman of the general affairs.

Source: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO63884780V10C20A9MM8000/