The Cabinet and special advisers named Tuesday by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe share one dominant trait: conservatism.
In Japan, conservatism is usually defined in terms of advocating traditional family values, adopting a hawkish diplomatic stance, seeking to revive patriotism and favoring revision of the pacifist Constitution.
Many in the new Cabinet are controversial figures who share Abe's conservative values and are personal friends and allies of the prime minister.