Shinzō Abe II cabinet (reshuffle)

Cabinet Abe II (reshuffle)
96th Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-96-dai naikaku (kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Shinzo Abe
Legislative period	187-188. NV (46th Abg . House , 23rd Senate )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	3rd September 2014
The End	December 24, 2014
Duration	0 years and 112 days
predecessor	Cabinet Shinzō Abe II
successor	Cabinet Shinzō Abe III
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	19 (2 resignations)
State Secretaries	5 special advisers to the prime minister 3 parliamentary deputy chiefs of the cabinet secretariat 25 "vice ministers" 27 "parliamentary state secretaries"
representation
House of Representatives	325/480 (14.10.2014)
senate	134/242 (14.10.2014)
Opposition leader	Banri Kaieda (Ex., DPJ )

The reshaped second Abe cabinet ( Japanese 第 ２ 次 安 倍 改造 内閣 , dainiji Abe kaizō naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from a cabinet reshuffle on September 3, 2014, in which all members of the except for the prime minister and six ministers took over The previous cabinet was replaced and some positions were redesigned until December 24, 2014. At the same time as the cabinet reshuffle, the party executive of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was newly appointed.

After a historically long period without a change of minister (617 days) and stable - in comparison with the previous cabinets since 2006 - with relatively high approval ratings, Abe carried out a comprehensive restructuring of the cabinet and party leadership in September 2014. Eight ministers belonged to a cabinet for the first time, and initially a total of five women, as many as in the first Koizumi cabinet in 2001. All ministers were members of the national parliament, initially two members of the Council House ( Sangiin ), all others in the House of Representatives ( Shūgiin ).

In November 2014, the Abe cabinet dissolved the House of Representatives, after the House of Representatives election on December 14, 2014 , the cabinet resigned before the election of a new prime minister on December 24, 2014 and was replaced on the same day by the third Abe cabinet , with the exception of of the Defense Minister is identical in terms of personnel to the outgoing cabinet.

Minister of State

Remodeled Abe II cabinet - from September 3, 2014 to December 24, 2014

Office	Surname	image	Chamber of Parliament	fraction	Faction
prime minister	Shinzo Abe		Output	LDP	- ( Machimura )
First Minister-designate under Article 9 of the Cabinet Law (Deputy Prime Minister) Minister of Finance Minister for Special Tasks ( Financial Sector )    responsible for overcoming deflation (defure dakkyaku taisaku)	Tarō Asō		Output	LDP	Asō
Minister for General Affairs	Sanae Takaichi		Output	LDP	-
Minister of Justice	Midori Matsushima (until October 20, 2014)		Output	LDP	Machimura
	Eriko Yamatani (acting)		Councils.	LDP	Machimura
	Yōko Kamikawa (from October 21, 2014)		Output	LDP	Kishida
Foreign minister	Fumio Kishida		Output	LDP	Kishida
Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology    responsible for the "revitalization of education" (kyōiku saisei),     the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo (Tōkyō Orimpikku ・ Pararimpikku)	Hakubun Shimomura		Output	LDP	Machimura
Minister for Health and Social Affairs	Yasuhisa Shiozaki		Output	LDP	-
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Kōya Nishikawa		Output	LDP	Nikai
Minister for Economy and Industry Minister for special tasks (“Support organization for nuclear power compensation , the decommissioning of reactors etc.” (genshiryoku songai baishō ・ hairo tō shien kikō) )    responsible for “economic damage caused by nuclear power” (genshiryoku keizai higai),     the "competitiveness of industry" (sangyō kyōsōryoku)	Yūko Obuchi (until October 20, 2014)		Output	LDP	Nukaga
	Sanae Takaichi (acting)		Output	LDP	-
	Yōichi Miyazawa (from October 21, 2014)		Councils.	LDP	Kishida
Minister for Land and Transport	Akihiro Ōta		Output	Kōmeitō	-
Environment Minister Minister for Special Tasks ("Nuclear Disaster Protection " (genshiryoku bōsai) )	Yoshio Mochizuki		Output	LDP	Kishida
Minister of Defense    responsible for "security legislation" (anzen hoshō hōsei)	Akinori Eto		Output	LDP	Ōshima
Head of the Cabinet Secretariat    responsible for "reducing the load on bases in Okinawa " (Okinawa kichi futan keigen)	Yoshihide Suga		Output	LDP	-
Reconstruction    minister responsible for recovery from the nuclear power accident in Fukushima (Fukushima gempatsu jiko saisei sōkatsu tantō)	Wataru Takeshita		Output	LDP	Nukaga
Chairwoman of the National Public Security Commission Minister for Special Tasks (Disaster Management (bōsai) )    responsible for the "kidnapping issue " (rachi mondai),     "maritime policy and territorial issues" (kaiyō seisaku ・ ryōdo mondai),     "strengthening the resilience of the country" ( kokudo kyōjinka)	Eriko Yamatani		Councils.	LDP	Machimura
Minister for Special Tasks ("Affairs of Okinawa and the Northern Territories " (Okinawa oyobi hoppō taisaku) , science and technology policy (kagaku gijutsu seisaku) , space policy (uchū seisaku) )    responsible for IT policy (jōhō tsūshin gijutsu (IT) seisaku ),     sai-charenji,     the Cool Japan strategy (kūru Japan senryaku)	Shun'ichi Yamaguchi		Output	LDP	Asō
Minister for Special Tasks (consumer and food safety (shōhisha oyobi shokuhin anzen) , regulatory reform (kisei kaikaku) , measures to reduce the birth rate (shōshika taisaku) , gender equality (danjo kyōdō sankaku) )    responsible for the “activation of women” (josei katsuyaku),     administrative reform (gyōsei kaikaku),     the national civil service (kokka kōmuin seido)	Haruko Arimura		Councils.	LDP	Ōshima
Minister for Special Tasks (Economic and Fiscal Policy (keizai zaisei seisaku) )    responsible for "stimulating the economy" (keizai saisei),     the "integrated reform of social security and taxes" (shakaihoshō ・ zei ittai kaikaku)	Akira Amari		Output	LDP	-
Minister for special tasks ("national strategic special zones" (kokka senryaku tokubetsu kuiki) )    responsible for "regional regeneration" (chihō sōsei)	Shigeru Ishiba		Output	LDP	-

Other positions

State secretaries ( fukudaijin and daijin seimukan ) from September 4, the others, many of them from the previous cabinet, from September 3.

State secretaries etc. of the reshaped Abe second cabinet

Office	Surname	chamber	fraction	Faction
Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office
Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat	Katsunobu Kato	Output	LDP	Nukaga
	Hiroshige Seko	Councils.	LDP	Machimura
	Kazuhiro Sugita	-	-	-
Head of the Legislative Office of the Cabinet	Yūsuke Yokobatake	-	-	-
naikaku sōri-daijin hosakan ("advisor to the prime minister")
for "home" (furusato)	Tarō Kimura	Output	LDP	Machimura
for "the national security council and the electoral system" (kokka anzen hoshō kaigi oyobi sichyo seido)	Yōsuke Isozaki	Councils.	LDP	Machimura
for "important tasks of national politics" (kokusei no jūyō kadai)	Seiichi Eto	Councils.	LDP	Nikai
for "growth strategy for health care, regional revitalization , preservation of social capital to strengthen the resilience of the country and for reconstruction, etc." (kokudo kyōjinka oyobi fukkō nado no shakai shihon seibi, chihō sōsei narabi ni kenkō, iryō ni kan suru seichō senryaku)	Hiroto Izumi	-	-	-
for "political planning" (seisaku kikaku) (also naikaku kōhōkan , PR officer of the cabinet, in the cabinet secretariat)	Eiichi Hasegawa	-	-	-
Fukudaijin ("Vice Minister")
reconstruction	Tadayoshi Nagashima	Output	LDP	Nikai
	Masayoshi Hamada	Councils.	Kōmeitō	-
Cabinet Office	Ryōsei Akazawa	Output	LDP	-
	Masaaki Taira	Output	LDP	-
	Yasutoshi Nishimura	Output	LDP	Machimura
General affairs	Satoshi Ninoyu	Councils.	LDP	Nukaga / Tanigaki
	Kosaburo Nishime	Output	LDP	Nukaga
Justice Cabinet Office	Yasuhiro Hanashi	Output	LDP	Kishida
Foreign Affairs	Minoru Kiuchi	Output	LDP	-
	Yasuhide Nakayama	Output	LDP	Machimura
Finances	Nobuhide Minorikawa	Output	LDP	-
	Ichirō Miyashita	Output	LDP	Machimura
Cult and Science	Hideki Niwa	Output	LDP	Ōshima
	Motoyuki Fujii	Councils.	LDP	Kishida
Health and work	Keiko Nagaoka	Output	LDP	Asō
	Kanae Yamamoto	Councils.	Kōmeitō	-
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Toshiko Abe	Output	LDP	Tanigaki
	Akio Koizumi	Councils.	LDP	-
Economy and industry	Daishirō Yamagiwa	Output	LDP	-
Economy and Industry Cabinet Office	Yōsuke Takagi	Output	Kōmeitō	-
Land and Transport	Issei Kitagawa	Councils.	LDP	Machimura
Land and transport reconstruction	Akihiro Nishimura	Output	LDP	Machimura
environment	Shigeo Kitamura	Output	LDP	Machimura
Environment Cabinet Office	Yasuhiro Ozato	Output	LDP	Tanigaki
defense	Akira Sato	Output	LDP	Kishida
Daijinseimukan (Parliamentary State Secretaries)
Cabinet Office	Takao Ochi	Output	LDP	Machimura
	Yōhei Matsumoto	Output	LDP	Nikai
Cabinet Office Reconstruction	Shinjirō Koizumi	Output	LDP	-
General affairs	Yōji Mutō	Output	LDP	Asō
	Jirō Akama	Output	LDP	Asō
	Gaku Hasegawa	Councils.	LDP	Machimura
Justice Cabinet Office (from September 12, 2014)	Taku Ōtsuka	Output	LDP	Machimura
Foreign Affairs	Kentaro Sonoura	Output	LDP	Asō
	Kazuyuki Nakane	Output	LDP	Machimura
	Takashi Uto	Councils.	LDP	Nukaga
Financial	Satoshi Ōie	Councils.	LDP	Asō
	Toshiko Takeya	Councils.	Kōmeitō	-
Cult and Science	Masaaki Akaike	Councils.	LDP	Machimura
Cult and Science Reconstruction	Tomohiro Yamamoto	Output	LDP
Health and work	Gaku Hashimoto	Output	LDP	Nukaga
	Emiko Takagai	Councils.	LDP	Machimura
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Hidemichi Sato	Output	Kōmeitō	-
	Yūko Nakagawa	Output	LDP	Nikai
Economy and industry	Yoshihiro Seki	Output	LDP	Machimura
Economy, Industry Cabinet Office Reconstruction	Shigeki Iwai	Councils.	LDP	Nukaga
Land and Transport	Ken'ichirō Ueno	Output	LDP	Ishihara
	Takashi Ōtsuka	Output	LDP	Nukaga
	Kazuhiko Aoki	Councils.	LDP	Nukaga
environment	Hinako Takahashi	Output	LDP	Ōshima
Environment Cabinet Office	Mamoru Fukuyama	Output	LDP
defense	Kenji Harada	Output	LDP	Nukaga
	Hirotaka Ishikawa	Councils.	Kōmeitō	-

Resignations

• Economy Minister Obuchi resigned in October 2013 over a scandal involving improperly used political funds.
• Justice Minister Matsushima resigned in October 2013 on charges of violating campaign laws.

Web links

• Japanese cabinet , reshaped Abe second cabinet: Minister of State , fukudaijin ("Vice Minister") , daijinseimukan (parliamentary state secretary) , naikaku-sōridaijin hosakan (advisor to the Prime Minister) (Japanese, English , Chinese )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 第 ２ 次 安 倍 改造 内閣 の 顔 ぶ れ . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . September 3, 2014, Retrieved September 3, 2014 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Japan ministers Yuko Obuchi and Midori Matsushima quit. In: BBC News. October 20, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014 .