The Facts

• The leader of the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba was designated for another term as prime minister of Japan in a vote in the two houses of the Diet on Monday.

• This comes after a runoff vote in the lower House of Representatives — the first since 1994 — against Yoshihiko Noda of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party, 221 to 160. Earlier, the House of Councillors voted to re-elect him.

• Ishiba retained most of his previous cabinet members, with changes in the posts of justice minister and farm minister as predecessors lost their seats in parliament, and in that of land minister as Tetsuo Sato became the leader of junior coalition partner Komeito.