Foreign News: New Cabinet

Viscount Takaaki Kato, who was summoned by Prince Regent Hirohito and requested to form a Cabinet (TIME, June 16), completed his task and presented the members of his Ministry to the Regent:

Prime Minister: Viscount Takaaki Kato

Foreign Affairs: Baron Kijuro Shidehara (onetime Ambassador to Washington)

Home Affairs: Rejiro Wakatsuki

Finance: Yugo Hamaguchi

War: General Kazunari Ugaki (held same office in Kiyoura Cabinet)

Navy: Admiral Takeshi Takarabe (was Minister of Marine in the Tomasaburo Kato Cabinet)

Justice: Sennosuka Yokita

Education: Ryohei Okada

Agriculture and Commerce: Korekiyo Takahashi (ex-Premier, leader of the Seiyukai Party)

Communications: Ki Inukai...

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