Newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe named his Cabinet on Tuesday, giving most of the posts to his close aides and the people who actively supported him during the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election.
The 52-year-old president of the ruling LDP is the youngest postwar prime minister and the first to be born after World War II.
Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Abe's longtime ally and a specialist in economic policy, was appointed chief Cabinet secretary. He will also handle issues pertaining to North Korea's past abductions of Japanese.