New Cabinet

Following the recent attempt on the life of Prince Regent Hirohito and the resignation of the Yamamoto Cabinet (TIME, Jan. 7), Viscount Kiego Kiyoura consented, after some hesitation, to form a new cabinet. Said he: "It is because I am a loyal subject of the Emperor of Japan that I cannot refuse to make an attempt to form a Cabinet in these most difficult times for the Empire."

According to the Nichi Nichi, Tokyo journal, the Cabinet included:

Premier: Viscount Kiego Kiyoura, aged 73, who started his career as a school teacher, accepted a Government clerkship, became successively head of several important Government departments. In 1902 he received a barony for his services in promoting the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Since 1917 he has been a Viscount and head of the Privy Council.

Home Affairs: Rentaro Mizuno; Home Minister under Admiral Kato, 1923.

Foreign Affairs: Viscount Ishii, veteran statesman.

Finance: Kazue Shoda, Finance Minister in the second Okuma Cabinet, 1916.

Marine: Vice Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, Under Minister of Marine in the second Okuma Cabinet.

Justice: Viscount Nobuaki Makina, a well-known politician and a delegate to the Paris peace conference of 1919.

Education : Count Hirotaro Hayashi, lecturer in the Imperial Tokyo University.

Communications: Narakachi Maida, formerly a director in the Department of Commerce.

Agriculture and Commerce: Baron Yoshiro Fujimura, a leading Japanese industrialist.

Railways: Count Enkichi Oki, holder of the same portfolio in the Kato Cabinet.

The new Government will, it was said, be Conservative (Kenyukai) and therefore opposed to the reforms for which the Yamamoto-Goto Ministry stood.