After the Japanese Senate election was settled, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida led the reshuffle of the cabinet and senior personnel of the Liberal Democratic Party.
According to the list of cabinet members announced on the evening of last Tuesday (August 9) and the list of high-level personnel of the Liberal Democratic Party announced on the morning of last Wednesday (10), the personnel reshuffle has two characteristics.
First, after Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi was replaced, the right-wing forces in Kishida's cabinet did not weaken, but instead increased.
Fumio Kishida (middle in the front row) reshuffled the cabinet, and the new cabinet members took a group photo on the evening of August 10.
(Associated Press)
Nobuo Kishi was not abandoned by Fumio Kishida, but changed his position, from the defense minister to the assistant to the prime minister in the direction of security. In the future, he will continue to play an important role in the discussion of the increase in defense spending and the formulation of the "National Security Strategy" at the end of the year and other documents. effect.
The new Minister of Defense, Yasushi Hamada, once stayed in the United States in his early years and served as the Deputy Defense Minister of the Obuchi Cabinet as early as 1998.
In 2008, he served as Minister of Defense in the Aso Cabinet, and he belongs to a non-affiliated person.
Some people think that he, as a senior defense expert, will uphold the moderate caution of the establishment on the issue of China.
There are also voices that he visited Taiwan together with Ishiba Shigeru, a leader in the Liberal Democratic Party. With right-leaning becoming a political trend, almost everyone hopes to seize political capital by anti-China. Hamada's attitude towards China cannot be as mild as ever.
The new Minister of Economy and Security, Sanae Takaichi, like Nobuo Kishi, is a far-right politician who has visited the Yasukuni Shrine many times.
During his previous tenure as the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, he pushed for the passage of a resolution condemning China's human rights issues in the National Assembly, advocated the establishment of a security cooperation mechanism between Japan and Taiwan, and publicly stated that Japan would participate in a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
Takaichi's entry into the cabinet from the position of the Liberal Democratic Party's political research chairman is equivalent to stepping into the front desk from behind the scenes, indicating that Kishida hopes to further play his role as an anti-China right wing.
"Minister of Economic Security" is a new position created by Fumio Kishida when he first formed the cabinet in October 2021. The purpose is to attach importance to economic security. It is conceivable that after Takaichi Sanae took office, Japan's economic prevention and confrontation with China will only be more and more events. .
Fumio Kishida cannot reflect his personal will in the reform of internal affairs and personnel, which is related to the fact that the Kishida faction where Kishida belongs is a small faction within the Liberal Democratic Party.
(Associated Press)
Second, this personnel reorganization is not so much the product of Fumio Kishida's attempt to dominate Japanese politics, but rather the product of Fumio Kishida's efforts to stabilize the political situation under the pressure of various forces...
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Right-wing Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi was replaced and the Kishida government has not changed its attitude towards China
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