Shinzo Abe, Japan's new prime minister, center, leads his new cabinet members to pose for a group photograph after the attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Japan's lower house confirmed Abe as the nation's seventh prime minister in six years, returning him to the office he left in 2007 after his party regained power in a landslide election victory last week. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images