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Japan’s Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM

By Eric Talmadge
Published December 26, 2012 2:59am ET
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Japan’s Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM
Japan's prime-minister-to-be Shinzo Abe arrives at the parliament for the special diet session in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Capitalizing on the Democrats' failure to improve the economy and its perceived lack of strong leadership, Abe led the Liberal Democratic Party to victory in parliamentary elections Dec. 16. Abe was to be named prime minister later Wednesday. He was also prime minister in 2006-2007. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE | AP

TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s Cabinet resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation’s new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan’s neighbors.

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