Takaichi shuffles Japan’s Cabinet to revive sagging support, keeps key ministers
Takaichi kept core ministers to preserve policy continuity while bringing in the Japan Innovation Party’s first Cabinet member to broaden coalition support.
- On Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reshuffled her cabinet, retaining key ministers including reflationist ally Minoru Kiuchi as economy minister, signaling continuity in her flagship spending plans.
- Takaichi's expansive fiscal policy and planned two-year tax cut on food items have rattled markets, pushing the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield to around 3.0 per cent, its highest level in three decades.
- Takaichi retained Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, a former finance ministry bureaucrat with conservative fiscal views, to ensure policy continuity. Katayama previously negotiated a joint US-Japan yen intervention with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in late July.
- Hiroshi Nakatsuka from coalition partner Japan Innovation Party received the regulatory reform portfolio, marking the first time the party has joined Takaichi's cabinet to share policy-making responsibility.
- Takaichi prioritizes stability ahead of next year's leadership race while preparing for Parliament debates over funding her two-year food tax cut, balancing spending pledges against market demands for fiscal discipline.
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left key ministers in office on Thursday after a cabinet reshuffle aimed at consolidating the ruling coalition and pushing through a food tax cut despite concerns over its funding.
Takaichi retains key ministers in reshuffle
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi yesterday retained her key ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle and made two appointments of Taiwan-friendly politicians.Takaichi — who has high approval ratings nearly a year into office — kept core members of her team, according to a Cabinet list announced by gov
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Tokyo, 17 Sep. (askanews) - Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi poses for the photos with her renewed government. She confirmed the key ministers in the slight reshuffle aimed at consolidating the government coalition and promoting a cut in consumption taxes, despite concerns about the financing modalities of the measure. Takaichi has maintained the main members of his team, including the Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, Foreign Minister Toshimits…
Japan's Takaichi Reshuffles Cabinet for the First Time 11 Months in Office... Key Ministers Retained
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi carried out her first cabinet reshuffle 11 months after taking office last October. Key ministers, including Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, were retained in their positions. According to Japanese media reports on the 17th, the Takaichi administration held an extraordinary cabinet meeting that morning and accepted the resignati…
(Updated with Prime Minister's statements) Tokyo, Sept. 17, (EFE).- Japan's Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, restructured her cabinet on Thursday but kept key portfolio chiefs such as Finance, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in a remodelling of its executive branch, seeking to boost its fiscal expansion policies. [...] Entry Japan's Prime Minister restructures her cabinet but maintains key ministers was first published in HolaNews.
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