Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori inaugurated his new Cabinet, which maintained the basic structure of his old one, on Tuesday night after being re-elected to the nation's top government post in the Diet earlier in the day.

With a series of high-profile Group of Eight meetings scheduled to begin Saturday -- when finance ministers will meet in Fukuoka -- that will culminate with the July 21-23 summit, Mori kept Kiichi Miyazawa on as finance minister and Yohei Kono as foreign minister.

To convey that economic policy would remain on the same track, he also reappointed Economic Planning Agency chief Taichi Sakaiya.