Japan PM Sanae Takaichi Reshuffles Cabinet, Two New Ministers Enter

TREE NEWS update: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reshuffled her cabinet on February 17, keeping Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and Finance Minister Katayama Satsuki in their posts. Lower House lawmaker Yoshihiro Seki joins the cabinet for the first time as education minister, while former Japan Innovation Party secretary-general Hiroshi Nakatsuji becomes regulatory reform minister, the first member of that party to enter the cabinet.