Six ministers who were appointed in a September Cabinet reshuffle have an average of 36 million yen in assets, excluding stockholdings and savings in ordinary deposits, according to a Kyodo News survey based on Diet report released Friday.
The Cabinet minister with the most assets as of Sept. 30 was Environment Minister Shunichi Suzuki with 82 million yen, followed by Sadakazu Tanigaki, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, with 56 million yen, and farm minister Tadamori Oshima with 32 million yen.
Hiroyuki Hosoda, state minister in charge of issues pertaining to Okinawa and the disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, had 26.2 million yen, Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba had 18.7 million yen and Yoshitada Konoike, state minister in charge of disaster prevention, reported 120,000 yen.
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