Diet members re-elected Shinzo Abe to the country's top political post on Wednesday, and he wasted no time launching his new Cabinet.

Following a landslide victory in the snap Lower House election on Dec. 14, Abe reappointed all members of his previous Cabinet except for Defense Minister Akinori Eto, who reportedly refused the post.

Eto was replaced by Gen Nakatani, a Lower House member who in 2001 and 2002 served as the director general of what was then the Defense Agency under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.