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Takaichi Plans Reshuffle Keeping Motegi, Katayama, Koizumi

9/5/2026

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to keep Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama in her reshuffle.
She also plans to keep Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi.
Satsuki Katayama led the first US-Japan coordinated currency intervention since 1998 in July.
She called the upcoming fiscal-year budget overhaul the largest reform since World War II.
The reshuffle at the midpoint of her term aims to consolidate Takaichi’s intraparty power.

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to keep Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama in her reshuffle.
She also plans to keep Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi.
Satsuki Katayama led the first US-Japan coordinated currency intervention since 1998 in July.
She called the upcoming fiscal-year budget overhaul the largest reform since World War II.
The reshuffle at the midpoint of her term aims to consolidate Takaichi’s intraparty power.