TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely pick a former Olympic speed skater to prepare for the 2020 Games and keep allies in key ...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely pick a former Olympic speed skater to prepare for the 2020 Games and keep allies in key posts in a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday as he readies a tax rise and aims to revise the pacifist constitution.
Abe is also poised to keep veteran lawmaker Toshihiro Nikai, 80, as Liberal Democratic Party secretary general, the party's number two post, political sources and media said. Kono, 56, who has a reputation as a maverick and is sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to Abe, would replace Takeshi Iwaya, who upset some ruling LDP colleagues in June by smiling when he met his South Korean counterpart.
Seiko Hashimoto, a seven-time woman Olympian who competed in both speed skating and cycling, is expected to become Olympics minister to oversee Japan's hosting of the 2020 Summer Games, media said, making her one of two women expected to gain posts.
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