Shinzō Abe I cabinet (remodeling)

Shinzō Abe I cabinet (remodeling)
90th Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-90-dai naikaku (kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Shinzo Abe
Legislative period	168. Kokkai (44th Shūgiin , 21st Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	August 27, 2007
The End	September 26, 2007
Duration	0 years and 30 days
predecessor	Cabinet Shinzō Abe I
successor	Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	18 (1 resignation)
State Secretaries	2 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 24 "Vice Ministers" 27 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	336/480 (25.9.2007)
Sangiin	105/242 (August 31, 2007)
Opposition leader	Ichirō Ozawa (Shūgiin, DPJ )

The reshaped Abe cabinet ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from August 27, 2007 to September 26, 2007. On July 29, 2007, Abes had a coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Kōmeitō in the election for Sangiin , the upper house lost the majority to the opposition following the impression of several ministerial resignations, donation and pension scandals. Government work became more difficult because of the so-called “twisted parliament” ( Nejire Kokkai ), in which the two chambers of parliament were controlled by different parties. It is true that Abes' coalition in the Shūgiin , the lower house, had a two-thirds majority, which enabled the Sangiin to be outvoted. However, important legislative proposals were delayed, and the LDP began calling for Abe to resign. After a trip to South and Southeast Asia, Abe reshuffled his cabinet on August 27 and filled the leadership positions of the LDP. The formal appointment of the ministers of state in the imperial residence took place on the evening of the same day.

Four ministers (Amari, Ibuki, Fuyushiba, Ōta) kept their posts. Yoshimi Watanabe was still a member of the cabinet in a new role; the responsibilities of some ministers of state have been redesigned. The previous Foreign Minister Tarō Asō changed as General Secretary to the LDP leadership.

After another ministerial resignation and new admissions by two ministers of false reports on political donations, Abe announced on September 9 that he would step down if the anti-terrorism law had left Japan on Operation Enduring Freedom on a refueling mission in the Indian Ocean participates, is not extended in time. Just three days later, on September 12th, he announced his resignation in order to break the political blockade and allow the law to be extended. - It was unclear whether the domestic political blockade or rather Abe's state of health or internal party rivalries were decisive for his resignation. The resulting early election of the LDP chairman on September 23 decided Yasuo Fukuda ( Machimura faction ) against Tarō Asō ( Asō faction ) for themselves. Fukuda was elected Prime Minister in parliament on September 25, against the Sangiin's vote, and the new cabinet was formally appointed on September 26.

Minister of State

Abe cabinet after reshuffle - from August 27, 2007 to resignation on September 26, 2007

Office	Surname	image	chamber	fraction	Faction
prime minister	Shinzo Abe		Shūgiin	LDP	( Machimura )
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication Minister of State for the Cabinet Office     responsible for regional reform, post-privatization	Hiroya Masuda		-	-	-
Minister of Justice	Kunio Hatoyama		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Foreign minister	Nobutaka Machimura		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Finance minister	Fukushirō Nukaga		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Bunmei Ibuki		Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Yōichi Masuzoe		Sangiin	LDP	-
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Takehiko Endō until September 3, 2007		Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
	Akira Amari temporarily		Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
	Masatoshi Wakabayashi from September 4th 2007		Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry	Akira Amari		Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport    zust. for tourism and maritime affairs	Tetsuzō Fuyushiba		Shūgiin	Kōmeitō	-
Environment Minister    zust. for global environmental issues	Ichirō Kamoshita		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Defense Minister	Masahiko Kōmura		Shūgiin	LDP	Kōmura
Chief Cabinet Secretary     att. for the kidnapping issue	Kaoru Yosano		Shūgiin	LDP	-
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission, Minister of State for Civil Protection, Food Safety	Shin'ya Izumi		Sangiin	LDP	Nikai
Secretary of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs , Deregulation,     Quality of Life, Science and Technology	Fumio Kishida		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Minister of State for the Financial Sector	Yoshimi Watanabe		Shūgiin	LDP	-
Minister of State for Economic and Tax Policy	Hiroko Ōta		-	-	-
Minister of State for Combating the Decline in Births and for Gender Equality	Yōko Kamikawa		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga

Note: The Prime Minister does not officially belong to any political group during his term of office.

Resignations

• Agriculture Minister Endo resigned because of a scandal surrounding misused subsidies.
• Prime Minister Abe announced his resignation on September 12, 2007.

swell

• Kantei , Japanese cabinet: 閣僚 名簿 (安 倍 改造 内閣) (Japanese), Members of the Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No Surprises. Abe Taps Faction Veterans for Cabinet. In: The Japan Times . August 28, 2007, accessed December 6, 2009 . 
2. ^ Abe Stakes His Job on Extension of Refueling Mission. In: The Japan Times . September 10, 2007, accessed December 6, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Chris Hogg: What Led Shinzo Abe to Resign? In: BBC News . September 12, 2007, accessed November 22, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Endo to Quit over Subsidy Scandal. In: Japan Times. September 3, 2007, accessed March 1, 2008 .  
5. ↑ Japanese Prime Minister Resigns. In: BBC News. September 12, 2007, accessed March 1, 2008 .  
6. ↑ Abe Announces He Will Resign. In: The Japan Times . September 12, 2007, accessed November 22, 2011 .