Related: Koizumi's LDP wins landslide victory

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro smiles at the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo, Sept. 11, 2005. Koizumi's long-ruling party won a landslide victory in Sunday's election for parliament's lower house. (Xinhua photo)

    TOKYO, Sept. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday he will reshuffle the Cabinet and his party's leadership after the end of the special parliament session being arranged to start Sept. 21, according to party executives.

    Koizumi is certain to be reelected as prime minister in the parliament session and form a new Cabinet following the Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory in Sunday's general election.

    The Democratic Party of Japan, meanwhile, began preparing to elect a successor to its leader, Katsuya Okada, who announced Sunday night he will resign as DPJ president following his party'scrushing defeat in the House of Representatives election.

    The LDP captured 296 seats, the second-largest figure in its 50-year history, well up from the 212 held before the election.

    Along with its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, the ruling camp took 327 seats, more than two-thirds of the 480 seats in the lower house.

    The DPJ, which had 177 seats before the election, lost 64 seats, leaving it with 113. It was the first setback for the party since it was established in 1996.

    Koizumi dissolved the lower house on Aug. 8 to call the election after the postal privatization bills failed to clear the parliament, with a larger-than-expected number of LDP members joining the opposition in voting against them.

    About 103.36 million people were eligible to choose from 1,131 candidates in the 300 single-seat constituencies and the 180-seat proportional representation sector divided into 11 blocks. Enditem