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TOKYO, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday carried out cabinet reshuffle for the first time since the previous one was launched in December 2012 and prioritized the subject of revitalizing Japan's economy.
The new lineup included 12 new faces and grouped five female ministers. Local reports said the reshuffle, along with the executive lineup change within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), aimed at forging LDP's long-term rules based on a more solid party.
The prime minister said at a press conference after the reshuffle that the new cabinet will put economy revitalization as top priority.
Abe returned to power in late 2012 and introduced a series of economic policy dubbed "Abenomics" in a move to boost Japan's prolonged sluggish economy.
Analysts here said that as Financial Minister Taro Aso and State Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy Akira Amari remained in their posts, the country would continue current financial policies featured by monetary easing.
The five female ministers' enrollment echoes Abe's "womenomics" as the prime minister hopes that they could call for more females to leave houses for offices so as to enlarge the size of Japan's labor force market.
Japan is trapped by low birthrates and serious ageing society and if working women were mobilized in the country Cheap S'well London Chimney Satin Bottles 17oz Canada , according to economists, some eight million workers could be added to the labor force, and they could help boost Japan's gross domestic product by 15 percent.
Although Abe said that "all five women are well qualified for those important Cabinet posts .. It's not about the number. I meant to have the right people in the right positions in the Cabinet," to enlisting a record number of female ministers itself has more symbolic meaning, according analysts here.
Meanwhile Cheap S'well Shadow Satin Bottles 17oz Canada , the cabinet reshuffling also created a new ministerial post in charge of boosting regional economy.
"To bolster regional economies is one of the biggest challenges for the revamped