At a meeting of its General Council on Oct. 9, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) approved a number of appointments, including naming former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada as chief deputy secretary general. Other notable appointments are as follows:

Executive acting secretaries general: Motoo Hayashi, Katsutoshi Kaneda, Yoshifumi Matsumura

Treasury Bureau director general: Teru Fukui

Information Research Bureau director general: Seiji Kihara

International Bureau director general: Ryuji Koizumi

Finance Committee chairperson: Ryu Shionoya

Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters acting chairpersons: Yuko Obuchi, Norio Mitsuya, Motoyuki Fujii

Diet Affairs Committee acting chairperson: Jun Matsumoto

Diet Affairs Committee chief deputy chairperson: Isshu Sugawara

Chair of general meeting of members of both houses of the Diet: Hidehisa Otsuji

Policy Research Council acting chairpersons: Norihisa Tamura, Masahiro Imamura, Yoshitaka Shindo, Yasushi Kaneko, Takeaki Matsumoto, Shigeyuki Goto, Tetsushi Sakamoto, Ichiro Miyashita, Satoshi Ninoyu, Takamaro Fukuoka

Party Ethics Committee chairperson: Akiko Santo