page_title: Third Abe Cabinet
section_title: First Reshuffled Cabinet
hierarchical_section_title: Third Abe Cabinet / Lists of Ministers / First Reshuffled Cabinet
caption_attribution_description: Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister, reformed the Cabinet on October 7, 2015. Abe posed for the photo with Sanae Yamamoto, Mitsuhide Iwaki, Fumio Kishida, Tarō Asō, Hiroshi Hase, Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Hiroshi Moriyama, Motoo Hayashi, Keiichi Ishii, Tamayo Ōtsuka, Gen Nakatani, Yoshihide Suga, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Tarō Kōno, Aiko Shimajiri, Akira Amari, Katsunobu Katō, Shigeru Ishiba, Toshiaki Endō, Ministers of State, Kōichi Hagiuda, Hiroshige Sekō, Kazuhiro Sugita, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries, and Yūsuke Yokobatake, Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Chiyoda Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis.
context_page_description: The Third Abe Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from December 2014 to November 2017. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito and controls both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.
  Following the 2017 general election the Third Abe cabinet was dissolved on November 1, 2017, and replaced with the Fourth Abe cabinet.
caption: PM Abe with his reshuffled cabinet inside the Kantei, October 7, 2015.
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