Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi remains in a strong position despite a poll showing falling support for her administration, ahead of an expected cabinet reshuffle to bolster her coalition government.<\/p>\n
A new cabinet could help the government win over voters, reward ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers and win the support of junior coalition partner Ishin no Kai, analysts have said.<\/p>\n
Takaichi is expected to embark on such a move in mid- or late September, according to reports by Kyodo News and other Japanese media, citing government and ruling party sources.<\/p>\n
If confirmed, it would be Takaichi\u2019s first cabinet reshuffle since taking office last October as she potentially eyes another term as LDP president in the 2027 party leadership election.<\/p>\n
The timing of the reshuffle is likely to be determined by her schedule in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
The government plans to adopt a tax reform package, including a consumption tax cut for food in mid-September, while Takaichi is expected to attend a UN General Assembly session in the United States in late September.<\/p>\n
\u201cA personnel reshuffle is likely after [the adoption of] the tax system reform package,\u201d an LDP source reportedly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi remains in a strong position despite a poll showing falling support for her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24416,234,51355,8558,8,2006,3341,2544,236,2240,33,26574,550],"class_list":["post-80264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-chief-cabinet-secretary-minoru-kihara","tag-diet","tag-foreign-minister-toshimitsu-motegi","tag-ishin-no-kai","tag-japan","tag-japan-innovation-party","tag-japanese-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi","tag-komeito","tag-ldp","tag-liberal-democratic-party","tag-nihon","tag-shunichi-suzuki","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}