Fukuda's new Cabinet lineup

TOKYO, Aug. 2 Kyodo -The following is the lineup of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's new Cabinetannounced Friday.

POSITION NAME AGE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda 72 Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Hiroya Masuda 56 (R) Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka 69 Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura 66 (R) Finance Minister Bunmei Ibuki 70 Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Tsuneo Suzuki 67 Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe 59 (R) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota 62 Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai 69 Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki 63 Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito 56 Defense Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi 47 Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura 63 (R) Chairman, National Public Safety Commission; State minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories Motoo Hayashi 61 State minister in charge of financial services and administrative reform Toshimitsu Motegi 52 State minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy Kaoru Yosano 69 State minister in consumer affairs, science and technology, food safety, and space development Seiko Noda 47 (F) State minister in charge of declining birthrate issue and abduction issue Kyoko Nakayama 68 (F) ----------------------------------------------------------------- (NOTES: Saito is the only New Komeito Diet member in the Cabinet; Masuda is a non-Diet member; The rest are Liberal Democratic Party Diet members. (R) denotes persons who have retained posts; (F) denotes female ministers.) * ==Kyodo