Cabinet Shinzō Abe I

This article is about Shinzō Abe's first cabinet. For that of Abe Nobuyuki, see Abe Nobuyuki's cabinet (1939–1940).

Cabinet Shinzō Abe I
90th Japanese cabinet dai-90-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Shinzo Abe
Legislative period	165-167. Kokkai (44th Shūgiin , 20th – 21st Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	September 26, 2006
The End	August 27, 2007
Duration	0 years and 335 days
predecessor	Koizumi III cabinet (reshuffle)
successor	Shinzō Abe I cabinet (remodeling)
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	18 (3 resignations, 1 suicide)
State Secretaries	5 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 23 "Vice Ministers" 27 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	339/480 (at Premier choice 26.9.2006)
Sangiin	136/242 (at the premier election)
Opposition leader	Ichirō Ozawa (Shūgiin, DPJ )

The first Abe cabinet ( Japanese 第 1 次 安 倍 内閣 , daiichiji Abe naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from September 26, 2006 until a cabinet reshuffle on August 27, 2007.

The previous Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi ( Mori faction , from October 2006: Machimura faction) reached his term limit as chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in September 2006 . The decision titled as "Post-Koizumi" about his successor in the election of the LDP chairman on September 20, 2006 won Shinzō Abe (Mori faction) against Tarō Asō ( Kōno faction , later: Asō faction) and Sadakazu Tanigaki ( Tanigaki faction ). On 26 September 2007 Abe was in the Parliament elected prime minister and presented his cabinet before the same day. The defeated Foreign Minister Asō retained his position, the previous Finance Minister Tanigaki was replaced.

The coalition cabinet of LDP and Kōmeitō included 15 ministers of state from the Shūgiin , the lower house, two members of the Sangiin , the upper house, and a non-member minister, including the prime minister. Two ministers of state (Abe, Asō) had already belonged to the outgoing cabinet . Fumio Kyūma, previously chairman of the executive council (sōmukai) of the LDP, moved to the cabinet, while the previous agriculture minister Shōichi Nakagawa was appointed by Abe as chairman of the political research council to the party leadership. Abe's campaign manager for the election of the LDP chairman, Akira Amari, received the Ministry of Economic Affairs. For the Kōmeitō, the previous General Secretary Fuyushiba replaced Kazuo Kitagawa as minister.

After several ministerial resignations, a pension and several donation scandals, Abe's coalition lost the Sangiin election in 2007 . A few weeks later, on August 27, 2007, he reshuffled the cabinet .

Minister of State

Abe Cabinet - September 26, 2006 to August 27, 2007

Office	Surname	image	chamber	fraction	Faction
prime minister	Shinzo Abe		Shūgiin	LDP	( Machimura )
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication Minister of State for Regional    Reform in charge of post-privatization	Yoshihide Suga		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Minister of Justice	Jin'en Nagase		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Foreign minister	Tarō Asō		Shūgiin	LDP	Asō
Finance minister	Kōji Omi		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Bunmei Ibuki		Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Hakuo Yanagisawa		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Toshikatsu Matsuoka until May 28, 2007		Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Masatoshi Wakabayashi acting as acting		Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
	Norihiko Akagi June 1st to August 1st 2007		Shūgiin	LDP	Kōmura
	Masatoshi Wakabayashi		Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry	Akira Amari		Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport     zust. for tourism, maritime affairs	Tetsuzō Fuyushiba		Shūgiin	Kōmeitō	-
Environment Minister    zust. for global environmental issues	Masatoshi Wakabayashi		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Head of Defense from January 9, 2007: Minister of Defense	Fumio Kyūma until July 4, 2007		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
	Yuriko Koike from July 4th 2007		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Chief Secretary of the Cabinet    zust. for the kidnapping issue	Yasuhisa Shiozaki		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission, Minister of State for Civil Protection	Kensei Mizote		Sangiin	LDP	Koga
Secretary of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs , Science and     Technology Policy, Innovation, Decline in Births and Gender Equality, Food Safety	Sanae Takaichi		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Minister of State for the Financial    Sector for the government program Challenge Again	Yūji Yamamoto		Shūgiin	LDP	Kōmura
Minister of State for Economic and Tax Policy	Hiroko Ōta		-	-	-
Minister of State for Deregulation    zust. for regional reform, reform of the civil service, rural regeneration,     organization of prefectures and regions	Gen'ichirō Sata until December 28, 2006		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
	Yoshimi Watanabe from December 28, 2006		Shūgiin	LDP	-

Note: The Prime Minister does not officially belong to any political group during his term of office.

Resignations, suicide

• State Minister Sata resigned because of a donation scandal.
• Agriculture Minister Matsuoka committed as part of a fundraising scandal suicide .
• Defense Minister Kyūma resigned over controversial remarks about the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
• Agriculture Minister Akagi resigned in the wake of a donation scandal after the 2007 Sangiin election was lost .

swell

• UCI, Center for the Study of Democracy
• Kantei, Japanese cabinet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shūgiin: Minutes of Sessions 165. Kokkai, No. 1 September 26, appointment of a prime minister
2. ↑ Abe Made Prime Minister. Leader Names Cabinet of Close Allies. In: The Japan Times . September 27, 2006, accessed December 6, 2009 . 
3. ^ Second Japanese Minister Resigns. In: BBC News. December 27, 2006, accessed March 1, 2008 .  
4. ↑ Japanese Minister Kills Himself. In: BBC News. May 28, 2007, accessed March 1, 2008 .  
5. ↑ Japan Minister Quits Over Gaffe. In: BBC News. July 3, 2007, accessed March 1, 2008 .  
6. ↑ Scandal hit Japan Minister Quits. In: BBC News. August 1, 2007, accessed March 1, 2008 .