Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, on Wednesday reshuffled his 20-month old cabinet.

He kept key ministers including finance, foreign and economy ministers, while appointing five women, a record-high matching the number in Junichiro Koizumi's first cabinet launched in 2001.

Here is a list of the new cabinet:

   ++ denotes lawmaker from LDP's junior coalition partner New Komeito
  F denotes female

  

   Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe

   *Finance and Deputy Prime Minister: Taro Aso (retained)

   *Foreign Affairs: Fumio Kishida (retained)

   *Economy, Trade and Industry: Yuko Obuchi (F)

   *Defence: Akinori Eto

   *Environment: Yoshio Mochizuki

   *Justice: Midori Matsushima (F)

   *Internal Affairs and Communication: Sanae Takaichi (F)

   *Health, Labour and Welfare: Yasuhisa Shiozaki

   *Education, Culture, Sports and Science: Hakubun Shimomura (retained)

   *Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Koya Nishikawa

   *Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Akihiro Ota ++ (retained)

   *Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (retained)

   *Economic, Fiscal Policy, Economic Revitalisation: Akira Amari (retained)

   *Abduction Issues, National Public Safety, Disaster Prevention: Eriko Yamatani (F)

   *Disaster Reconstruction: Wataru Takeshita

   *Measures for Women's Active Participation, Declining Birthrate: Haruko Arimura (F)

   *Science and Technology: Shunichi Yamaguchi

   *Regional Revitalisation: Shigeru Ishiba

(AFP)