In the cabinet reshuffle to be held on the 10th, Abe's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno will remain in office.
Mr. Matsuno is 59 years old and has been elected eight times to the House of Representatives Chiba 3rd District.
He belongs to the Abe faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.
After working as a company employee and attending the Matsushita Institute of Government and Economics, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. Six years ago, he entered the Cabinet for the first time as the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the second reshuffled Abe Cabinet. has held the post of
He was appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary with the inauguration of the Kishida Cabinet in October last year, and has been responding to the new Corona and North Korea's missile launches.
Prime Minister Kishida will continue to appoint Mr. Matsuno, who belongs to the Abe faction, the largest faction within the party, as Chief Cabinet Secretary, which is the cornerstone of the Cabinet, and is expected to aim to stabilize the political foundation.