Cabinet

Appointments include five Maori and first openly gay deputy prime minister

Mulls capital punishment, life sentence for drug offences

Cabinet members voice concern over inaccurate data of wheat production, shortfall

The truth is that most cabinet appointments have nothing to do with competency, but with political expediency

All governments talk about restructuring but they all end up expanding the government

Says hike necessary to end shortage of 94 life-saving drugs

Panel’s convener seeks members’ input on causes of the phenomenon

As the freshly minted head of the ruling LDP vows to continue the policies of his predecessor Shinzo Abe

Accords approval to amendments in election laws

Says entire cabinet should have apologised for the police officer's victim-blaming in motorway incident