The Cabinet on Tuesday named the career bureaucrats who will take up posts as vice ministers at the Cabinet Office and the seven ministries to be created under sweeping reforms that will take effect Jan. 6, when the current 23 government entities will be reduced to 13.

Of the 13, the National Public Safety Commission has no post for this type of administrator, and the incumbent vice minister of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry will retain his position at the new Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, MITI's successor.

Following is the list of vice ministers.

Administrative vice ministers
Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications MinistryAkira Shimazu
Justice MinistryKunihiro Matsuo*
Foreign MinistryYutaka Kawashima*
Finance MinistryToshiro Muto*
Education, Culture, Sports, Sience and Technology MinistryMotoyuki Ono
Health, Welfare and Labor MinistryJungoro Kondo
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries MinistryHideaki Kumazawa
Economy, Trade and Industry MinistryKatsusada Hirose*
Land, Infrastructure and Transport MinistryKunihisa Ono
Environment MinistryYoshitake Ota
Cabinet OfficeAkira Kono
Defense AgencyKen Sato*

(*People keeping the same post.)