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according to cctv news,at about 14:00 local time on the 4th, japanese prime minister shigeru ishiba delivered an inaugural speech after taking office as prime minister in the house of representatives of the japanese diet.

ishiba shigeru said,we will continue to promote political reform and promote the resolution of political and money issues,committed to restoring public trust in politics.

he also said,we will advance our strategic and mutually beneficial relationship with china.

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on september 27, shigeru ishiba, former secretary-general of the liberal democratic party of japan, was elected as the 28th president of the liberal democratic party. on the afternoon of october 1, shigeru ishiba attended the appointment ceremony of the new prime minister and the certification ceremony of cabinet ministers held at the imperial palace. the new cabinet was officially established on the evening of the 1st. there are 20 ministers in the new cabinet, 13 of whom are joining the cabinet for the first time.

at a press conference held on the evening of the 1st, ishiba announced that the house of representatives would be dissolved on october 9, a house of representatives election announcement would be issued on the 15th, and a house of representatives election would be held on the 27th.elections for the japanese house of representatives are held every four years, and the terms of the current house of representatives members will expire in october 2025.

japanese media analyzed that the reason why ishiba chose to dissolve the house of representatives as soon as possible was becausethe purpose is to make good use of the popularity of the party president election in order to seize the opportunity of relatively high support rates.

he was reported shortly after taking office‍‍‍

although there are no members of the abe faction related to the "black gold" scandal in japan's new cabinet,hiroyuki kamiwaki, a professor at kobe gakuin university, has submitted a letter of accusation to the tokyo district prosecutor's office, reporting shigeru ishiba and the person in charge of the accounting of the political group.

kamiwaki said in the letter that he believed that the liberal democratic party political group "suigetsu kai", which ishiba shigeru once served as a representative,there is a behavior of "underwriting income" in the political fund income and expenditure report, which is suspected of violating the "political funds regulation act".

hiroyuki kamowaki is an expert on the verification of political funds in japan and isthe "whistleblower" of the liberal democratic party's "black gold" scandal. in october 2023, he sent a report letter to the tokyo district prosecutor's office, stating that multiple factions within the liberal democratic party concealed at least 40 million yen in political fund income from 2018 to 2021, violating the "political funds regulation act." after investigation, the special investigation department of the tokyo district prosecutor's office found that the amount of "black gold" involved was far more than that. the liberal democratic party's "black gold" scandal quickly developed.

source: governor of chang’an street