{"id":482695,"date":"2026-02-18T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482695\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:25:11","slug":"japanese-pm-takaichis-cabinet-resigns-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482695\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese PM Takaichi&#8217;s cabinet resigns &#8211; World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"_local_image_mcenew\" style=\"display: none;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 424px; height: 636px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699510c4a310d68600f8206e.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" id=\"img-699510c4a310d68600f8206e\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>   FILE PHOTO: Japan&#8221;s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 9, 2026. [Photo\/Agencies] <\/p>\n<p>TOKYO &#8211; Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi resigned with her cabinet on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet ministers of the Takaichi administration submitted letters of resignation en masse at a cabinet meeting, which started shortly after 9 am local time, as parliament is set to convene for a new session in the afternoon to elect a new prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>After the vote, the new premier will finalize cabinet appointments, and the chief cabinet secretary is scheduled to announce the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is expected to be reinstated as prime minister, given that her party currently holds more than two-thirds of the seats in the powerful lower house.<\/p>\n<p>With Takaichi&#8217;s cabinet appointed just months ago in October and the ruling coalition winning the Feb. 8 general election, changes to the lineup are unlikely, local media said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 FILE PHOTO: Japan&#8221;s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,2454,44,194955,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-482695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-takaichi-cabinet","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}