The Second Mori Cabinet was inaugurated on July 4, 2000. Following the 42nd general election of members of the House of Representatives, which had taken place on June 25, the 148th session of the Diet (special session) was convoked on July 4 and Yoshiro Mori was again designated Prime Minister that afternoon by both Houses of the Diet. Upon the designation, he selected the members of his second Cabinet and at the Imperial Palace that night he was appointed Japan's eighty-sixth Prime Minister ( the fifty-fifth person) since Hirobumi Ito in 1885. Four members of the First Mori Cabinet, other than the Prime Minister himself, have been reappointed to their former posts: Mr. Yohei Kono, Minister for Foreign affairs; Mr. Kiichi Miyazawa, Minister of Finance; Mr. Kunihiro Tsuzuki, Director-General of the Management and Coordination Agency; and Mr. Taichi Sakaiya, Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency. The new Chief Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Hidenao Nakagawa, has also been named Minister for IT(Information Technology)policy, a new portfolio created by the initiative of Prime Minister Mori.