Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Monday continued filling the slots of a new Cabinet that he plans to form today, deciding to retain the trade and industry minister and to appoint a new farm minister, political sources said.
Mori has decided to keep Takeo Hiranuma as his minister of international trade and industry and appoint Yoshio Yatsu as agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister when he reshuffles his administration, the sources said.
The reshuffle is being made in preparation for a major regrouping of government ministries and agencies that is slated to take place Jan. 6.