Finance Minister Taro Aso and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga are expected to remain in their posts when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe carries out a Cabinet reshuffle on Aug. 3, government and ruling coalition sources said Friday.
The prospective lineup indicates Abe is loath to tamper with the framework of a Cabinet that has supported the stable running of government during his second term in office.
Komeito, the junior coalition partner of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, is poised to request that its lawmaker Keiichi Ishii, who has held the post of transport minister for less than a year, remain in the post, the sources said.