JAPANESE CABINET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25814, 9 April 1945, Page 6

JAPANESE CABINET

APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED SUZUKI’S PORTFOLIOS (Rec. 9.10 p.m.)' NEW YORK, Apl. 7. Tokio radio announced that Admiral Suzuki has formed his new Cabinet. In addition to the Premiership, Admiral Suzuki will hold the portfolios of Foreign Minister and Minister for Greater East Asia. General Korechika Anami is the new War Minister, and Admiral Mitsumass Yonai the Navy Minister. Anami was formerly Direc-tor-general of Army Aviation Headquarters. He was Vice-minister of War before Pearl Harbour. Yonai was Premier from January to July, 1940. Other Ministers are Toyosaku Hirose (Finance), Teijiro Toyoda (Munitions Transport, andiCommunications), Kozo Ota (Education), Genki Abe (Home Affairs), Takeshige Ishiguro (Agriculture and Commerce), Hiroshi Shimomura (Information), Tadahiko Okada (Welfare), Hiromasa Matzuzaka (Justice), Seizo Sakonji and Hyogorc Sakurai (State Ministers). The chiei Cabinet Secretary is Hisatsune Sakomizu, and Chief of the Legislation Bureau is Chokkyo Murase. The radio says that Suzuki’s efforts to form a Cabinet were delayed by an air raid on Tokio yesterday. The Domei News Agency states that Shinjiro Inouye, an official of the Department of Investigation, will go to Germany as Minister Plenipotentiary. Tokio radio announced that Fieldmarshal Sugiyama and Field-marshal Shunroku Hata have been appointed over-all commanders of the army. Admiral Suzuki ih a statement broadcast by Tokio radio said: “ The enemy has now firmly established himself on our homeland. If the situation continues like this our nation’s existence might be threatened. I am firmly determined to lead the nation and am prepared to offer my life itself at the foremost front in this task. My sincere wish is that the nation will do its best to set the throne's august mind at rest in elevating the nation’s fighting power.”