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小泉再改造内閣発足
小泉連立再改造内閣が9月22日発足した。首相は、焦点となっていた竹中金融・経済財政担当相や川口外相を留任させ、構造改革路線の堅持を強調した形となった。
Takenaka, Kawaguchi retain posts after Koizumi reshuffles Cabinet
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi retained Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka and Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi after reshuffling his Cabinet on Sept. 22, defying calls for their ouster from within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Apparently feeling bullish after his sweeping victory in the LDP presidential election two days earlier, Koizumi kept Takenaka, seen as a symbol of the prime minister's economic reform drive, despite mounting demands from LDP veterans that the private sector economist - a champion of austere fiscal policy and tough bank inspections - be replaced.
Takenaka will continue concurrently serving as financial services minister and economic and fiscal policy minister, two posts he has held since September, in the new 17-member Cabinet.
It had been widely speculated that Koizumi would strip Takenaka of one of the two Cabinet posts in a compromise with LDP lawmakers who backed Koizumi in his re-election bid despite differences over policy.
Koizumi also rejected a call by many LDP lawmakers to replace Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, a former trade ministry bureaucrat who does not hold a Diet seat.
Kawaguchi has been the target of attacks from LDP veterans who want more Cabinet posts to go to Diet members. Koizumi apparently kept her on because the nation is facing difficult diplomatic issues related to North Korea and the planned dispatch of Self-Defense Forces to take part in the reconstruction of Iraq.
The key economic portfolio of finance minister went to Sadakazu Tanigaki, who was in charge of industrial revitalization in the previous Cabinet.
The lineup "is meant to show the nation that the policy direction of the Koizumi administration has not changed," the prime minister said triumphantly.
Shukan ST: Oct. 3, 2003
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- retain posts
- 留任する
- reshuffles
- 改造する
- Cabinet
- 内閣
- Financial Services Minister
- 金融相
- Foreign Minister
- 外相
- defying
- 平然と無視する
- ouster
- 追い出し
- ruling Liberal Democratic Party
- 与党自民党
- bullish
- 強気の
- sweeping victory
- 快勝
- presidential election
- 総裁選
- economic reform drive
- 金融改革の原動力
- mounting 〜
- 高まる〜
- private sector economist
- 民間の経済学者
- austere fiscal policy
- 厳しい財政政策
- concurrently
- 兼任して
- economic and fiscal policy minister
- 経済財政相
- had been widely speculated that 〜
- 大方〜だと考えられていた
- strip 〜 of 〜
- 〜を〜から外す
- compromise
- 妥協案
- re-election bid
- 再選のもくろみ
- former trade ministry bureaucrat
- 元通産省の官僚
- Diet seat
- 議席
- diplomatic issues
- 外交問題
- dispatch of Self-Defense Forces
- 自衛隊派遣
- reconstruction
- 復興
- portfolio of finance minister
- 財務大臣の地位
- was in charge of industrial revitalization
- 産業再生を担当した
- triumphantly
- 意気揚々と