BACKGROUND: List of members of Japan's new cabinet

Sep 16, 2009, 9:26 GMT

   Tokyo - Following are the names of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet, announced Wednesday. If not indicated differently, the ministers are members of the Democratic Party of Japan.

Prime Minister                                  Yukio Hatoyama

Deputy Prime Minister, state minister in charge of National Strategy Bureau              Naoto Kan

Foreign Minister                                Katsuya Okada

Finance Minister                                Hirohisa Fujii

Internal Affairs and Communications Minister    Kazuhiro Haraguchi

Justice Minister                                Keiko Chiba

Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister                             Tatsuo Kawabata

Health, Labour and Welfare Minister             Akira Nagatsuma

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister    Hirotaka Akamatsu

Economy, Trade and Industry                     Masayuki Naoshima

Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister, state minister in charge of Okinawa, Northern Territories and disaster prevention    Seiji Maehara

Environment Minister                            Sakihito Ozawa

Defense Minister                                Toshimi Kitazawa

Chief Cabinet Secretary                         Hirofumi Hirano

National Public Safety Commission Chairman      Hiroshi Nakai

State Minister in charge of Administrative Reform Council                                  Yoshito Sengoku

State Minister in charge of Postal and Financial Affairs                               Shizuka Kamei                                                 (People's New Party)

State Minister in charge of Consumer Affairs, Food Safety, Declining Birthrate and Gender Equality                                 Mizuho Fukushima                                                  (Social Democratic                                                    Party of Japan)