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June 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda One of the casualties of the reshufle was Naoki Tanaka, who held the defence portfolio, but who was censured by the opposition in the Upper House of the Diet in April for poorly handling the response to North Korea’s launch of a rocket.
Tanaka has been replaced by Satoshi Morimoto, a professor of security and foreign policy issues at Takushoku University.
Morimoto becomes the first non-politician to hold Japan’s defence portfolio since the end World War II, when the post was controlled by the military.
Takeshi Maeda, the transport minister, and Michiniko Kano, who headed the agriculture ministry, have also been replaced.
Even though the shuffle was designed to win the support of the opposition, the LDP appeared unimpressed.
“It is too late to reshuffle the Cabinet and we will grill [Mr Noda] on whether he believes he appointed the right people for the right jobs,” Nobuteru Ishihara, the head of the LDP told reporters on Monday afternoon on Tokyo.
If Mr Noda does not have the support of the LDP and is unable to drum up sufficient support for his tax reform plans, he is likely to become another former prime minister as soon as the autumn.
Japan has had six prime minister since September 2006 and Mr Noda was only elected leader of the party by its members in September of last year.
“Mr Noda has already stated quite clearly that he is betting his political career on this issue and it is very likely that he will have to step down if he cannot push it through,” said Steven Reed, a professor of Japanese politics at Chuo University.
“That will presumably happen when the party meets to elect its leader in September and we could very well be continuing the routine of another new prime minister every 12 months,” he said.
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