Japan's prime minister, Fumio Kishida, voted in by parliament on Monday, unveiled a cabinet line-up featuring stalwarts of the ruling party and allies of former prime minister Shinzo Abe and ex-finance minister Taro Aso.
A former foreign minister, Kishida has long spoken of his desire to become prime minister. He is seen as a soft-spoken, dovish consensus-builder, but lacks wide popularity.
He worked in the United States, Australia, and Vietnam when employed by a trading firm before entering politics in 2004. A little-known but well-connected politician who has previously served as Olympics Minister, Suzuki is the brother-in-law of current finance minister Taro Aso and the son of former prime Minister Zenko Suzuki.
First elected to the lower house of parliament in 2003, he had previously served as an assembly member of local governments in Tokyo.Horiuchi, 55, will take her first ministerial post as one of three women in Kishida's cabinet lineup. She was vice minister for environment and state minister of the Cabinet Office under Suga.
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