Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, on Wednesday reshuffled his 20-month old cabinet.

He kept key ministers including finance, foreign and economy ministers, while appointing five women, a record-high matching the number in Junichiro Koizumi's first cabinet launched in 2001.

Here is a list of the new cabinet:

++ denotes lawmaker from LDP's junior coalition partner New Komeito F denotes female

Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe

*Finance and Deputy Prime Minister: Taro Aso (retained)

*Foreign Affairs: Fumio Kishida (retained)

*Economy, Trade and Industry: Yuko Obuchi (F)

*Defence: Akinori Eto

*Environment: Yoshio Mochizuki

*Justice: Midori Matsushima (F)

*Internal Affairs and Communication: Sanae Takaichi (F)

*Health, Labour and Welfare: Yasuhisa Shiozaki

*Education, Culture, Sports and Science: Hakubun Shimomura (retained)

*Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Koya Nishikawa

*Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Akihiro Ota ++ (retained)

*Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (retained)

*Economic, Fiscal Policy, Economic Revitalisation: Akira Amari (retained)

*Abduction Issues, National Public Safety, Disaster Prevention: Eriko Yamatani (F)

*Disaster Reconstruction: Wataru Takeshita

*Measures for Women's Active Participation, Declining Birthrate: Haruko Arimura (F)

*Science and Technology: Shunichi Yamaguchi

*Regional Revitalisation: Shigeru Ishiba

(AFP)