he wants to make sure that ldp or ldp supported candidates win and this would boost abe's popularity and increase his influence in japan. he will face his own election a year from now at the ldp leadership review. he needs to secure our second three-year term so he can stay on as prime minister. >> could you tell us a little bit more about the other key posts in the ldp that are affected by the shake up? >> abe chose tomomi inada to chair the research council. she has been the minister toed a form minister. abe was impressed by how she has worked to deregulate the farming and medical sectors. and prime minister -- the prime minister named toshihiro nikai chair of the ldp's decision-make body. he is a lawmaker and has ties with new komeito. abe knows that having an influential position in a key post in the party will benefit his administration. i think. >> that was our senior political commentator. >>> japan's cabinet reshuffle will also affect the business world. ai uchida has the details. >> prime minister abe has made it his mission to reare survive the economy and drag the country

she's been the chair of the ldp's policy board in the upper house. ministers will tender their resignations at a meeting later in the day. the chief cabinet secretary will announce the reshuffled line-up after that. >>> he was given a chance to leave the country after his democratic party's vikt are i in the lower house election in 2012. he took up a laundry list of pressing measures. misuo kijima looks back. >> reporter: shinzo abe was a familiar face when he lead his liberal democrats to victory in the last lower house election but he came with fresh ideas about how to write japan's finances. >> translator: let's do the best we can to revive the economy. >> reporter: abenomics designed to end tax deflation that's hung on for decades. abe only has six months to convince voters. he and other members of his ruling coalition swept to victory again in the election for the upper house. >> translator: voters want us to create political stability and push ahead with our economic policies, and i accept that responsibility. >> reporter: with control of both

he has ties with many members of the ldp's coalition partner new komeito. abe's expected to select anada to another key party post, chair of the ldp's policy research council. abe has been impressed by how she's worked to deregulate the farming and medical sectors. >> translator: i want to advance and accelerate our policies and invigorate my administration. >> abe's expected to appoint someone with a lot of experience in security matters to a new cabinet post. minister in charge of security legislation. eto chairs the lower house committee. he's expected to serve as defense minister. he would work on legal revisions related to collective self-defen self-defense. cabinet members decided in july to reinterpret the constitution to allow japan to exercise the right. prime minister abe has stressed it is important for japan to update its defense policy to adapt to a changing security environment. his new cabinet member responsible for defense and national security legislation is in charge of putting his plan into action. >> reporter: the development of the chin

akira amari is staying on as economic revitalization minister and former ldp secretary-general ishibas joining the cabinet. he assumed a new role of regional revitalization minister. >>> people in greece and the balkan peninsula are facing floods emerging from heavy rainfall. our meteorologist jonathan oh has the details in a world weather report. >> we are continuing to monitor the system that is continuing to bump a lot of rainfall over the balkan peninsula. you can see the spin and it's actually spinning on top of itself and not moving in any particular direction so you see the results in this particular video where a cutoff low pressure system continues to spin over greece, bringing stormy weather, torrential rains have caused flooding in the islands of the ionian sea and the western part of greece tuesday. homes and roads were submerged and rescue workers were called in to help residents out in the process. now i want to show you what's happening when it comes to this low pressure system. notice it hasn't moved very much from italy over in to the southern tip of greece. and what