The Cabinet of Japan's newly-elected Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
was formally launched on Wednesday morning after the attestation
ceremony at the Imperial Palace.
The Cabinet is scheduled to appear in front of photographers at
the prime minister's official residence and hold its first meeting
shortly after.
The imperial attestation ceremony was originally scheduled for
later Tuesday, but was delayed because it was too late when the
first procedural press conference of several Cabinet ministers
finished.
Fukuda was elected the nation's 58th prime minister by the
parliament on Tuesday afternoon. He formed the Cabinet on the same
day, retaining most of the former Cabinet left by Shinzo Abe.
(Xinhua News Agency September 26, 2007)
