Cabinet Asō

Cabinet Asō
92nd Japanese cabinet dai-92-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Tarō Asō
Legislative period	170-172. Kokkai (44th Shūgiin , 21st Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	August 24, 2008
The End	September 16, 2009
Duration	1 year and 23 days
predecessor	Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet (reshuffle)
successor	Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	18 (3 resignations)
State Secretaries	2 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 4 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 23 "Vice Ministers" 27 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	335/479 (16/10/2008)
Sangiin	103/242 (11.1.2009)
Opposition leader	until May 16: Ichirō Ozawa (Shūgiin, DPJ ) from May 16: Yukio Hatoyama (DPJ)

The Cabinet Asō ruled Japan from choosing Tarō ASOS for prime minister by the Kokkai on 24 September 2008 and the formal appointment by the Tenno until the resignation on 16 September, 2009.

Asō had won the election as chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on September 22nd . Predecessor Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation on September 1, 2008. After Asō's election, the new cabinet was presented at a press conference in the Kantei , the prime minister’s official residence. Asō read the nominations himself - traditionally a task of the chief cabinet secretary. It consisted of 16 MPs from the Shūgiin , the lower house, and two from the Sangiin , the upper house. Five ministers of state from the previous cabinet were retained in their posts. Five ministers belonged to a cabinet for the first time. At 34, Yūko Obuchi was the youngest member of a cabinet in post-war history.

After the defeat of the governing coalition in the Shūgiin election on August 30, 2009 , the Asō cabinet resigned on September 16, 2009 before Yukio Hatoyama's election as the new Prime Minister.

Minister of State

Asō Cabinet - from September 24, 2008 to September 16, 2009 resignation.

Office	Surname	image	chamber	fraction	Faction
prime minister	Tarō Asō		Shūgiin	LDP	( Asō )
Ministers of State who run a ministry
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication Minister of State for Regional Reform	Kunio Hatoyama until June 12, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
	Tsutomu Satō from June 12, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Minister of Justice	Eisuke Mori		Shūgiin	LDP	Asō
Foreign minister	Hirofumi Nakasone		Sangiin	LDP	Ibuki
Finance Minister Minister of State for the Financial Sector	Shōichi Nakagawa until February 17, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Kaoru Yosano from February 17, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	-
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Ryu Shionoya		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Yōichi Masuzoe		Sangiin	LDP	-
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Shigeru Ishiba		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry	Toshihiro Nikai		Shūgiin	LDP	Nikai
Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport	Nariaki Nakayama until September 28, 2008		Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Takeo Kawamura provisionally		Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Kazuyoshi Kaneko as of September 29, 2008		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Environment Minister	Tetsuo Saitō		Shūgiin	Kōmeitō	-
Defense Minister	Yasukazu Hamada		Shūgiin	LDP	-
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Chief Cabinet Secretary    responsible for the kidnapping issue	Takeo Kawamura		Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
Minister of State without a ministry
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs , Civil Protection	Tsutomu Satō until July 2, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
	Motoo Hayashi from July 2nd, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy	Kaoru Yosano until July 2, 2009		Shūgiin	LDP	-
	Yoshimasa Hayashi from July 2, 2009		Sangiin	LDP	Yamasaki
Minister of State for Deregulation    responsible for administrative reform, reform of the civil service	Akira Amari		Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
Minister of State for Consumer Protection, Food Safety, Science & Technology    responsible for consumer protection	Seiko Noda		Shūgiin	LDP	-
Minister of State for Combating the Fall in Births, Gender Equality	Yūko Obuchi		Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima

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

State Secretaries

At the same time as the term of office of the ministers of state, the term of office of the deputy chief cabinet secretaries and of the head of the legislative office of the cabinet began ; the Prime Minister's special advisors , state secretaries ( fuku-daijin, "vice minister", English Senior Vice Minister ) and parliamentary state secretaries ( daijin seimukan, English Parliamentary Secretary ) took up their positions a few days later.

State secretaries in the Asō cabinet

Office	Surname	chamber	fraction	Faction
Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries	Jun Matsumoto	Shūgiin	LDP	Asō
	Yoshitada Kōnoike until May 13, 2009	Sangiin	LDP	Asō
	Katsuhito Asano from May 13, 2009	Sangiin	LDP	Asō
	Iwao Uruma	-	-	-
Head of the Legislative Office of the Cabinet	Reiichi Miyazaki	-	-	-
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
Special advisor for the kidnapping issue	Kyōko Nakayama	Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
Special advisor for revitalization of the regions	Shun'ichi Yamaguchi	Shūgiin	LDP	Asō
State Secretaries ("Vice Ministers")
Cabinet Office	Yoshitake Masuhara	Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Yōichi Miyazawa	Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
	Tatsuya Tanimoto	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Internal affairs and communication	Gaku Ishizaki	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Masatoshi Kurata	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Judiciary	Tatsuo Sato	Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
Foreign Affairs	Shintarō Itō	Shūgiin	LDP	Kōmura
	Seiko Hashimoto	Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
Finances	Kōichi Hirata until March 26, 2009	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
	Masatoshi Ishida from March 30, 2009	Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
	Wataru Takeshita	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Education, culture, sports, science and technology	Hirokazu Matsuno	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Toshio Yamauchi	Sangiin	LDP	Yamasaki
Work, health and social affairs	Hideaki Ōmura	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
	Takao Watanabe	Sangiin	Kōmeitō	-
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Noritoshi Ishida	Shūgiin	Kōmeitō	-
	Motohiko Kondo	Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Economy, trade and industry	Sanae Takaichi	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Takamori Yoshikawa	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Land, infrastructure and transport	Yasushi Kaneko	Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
	Tokyo Kanō	Sangiin	LDP	Koga
environment	Masayoshi Yoshino	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
defense	Seigo Kitamura	Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
Parliamentary State Secretaries ("Parliamentary Secretaries")
Cabinet Office	Osamu Uno	Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Masayoshi Namiki	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Kenta Matsunami until January 14, 2009	Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Yoshirō Okamoto from January 14, 2009	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Internal affairs and communication	Tetsushi Sakamoto	Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
	Junji Suzuki	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Hirohiko Nakamura	Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
Judiciary	Chūkō Hayakawa	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
Foreign Affairs	Masahiko Shibayama	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Yasutoshi Nishimura	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Nobuhide Minorikawa	Shūgiin	LDP	-
Finances	Norio Mitsuya	Shūgiin	LDP	Koga
	Shinsuke Suematsu	Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
Education, culture, sports, science and technology	Koichi Hagiuda	Shūgiin	LDP	Machimura
	Tomoko Ukishima	Sangiin	Kōmeitō	-
Work, health and social affairs	Zenjirō Kaneko	Shūgiin	LDP	Nikai
	Tōru Toida until June 16, 2009	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Taku Etō	Shūgiin	LDP	Ibuki
	Tetsurō Nomura	Sangiin	LDP	Tsushima
Economy, trade and industry	Masaaki Taniai	Sangiin	Kōmeitō	-
	Yoshifumi Matsumura	Sangiin	LDP	Tsushima
Land, infrastructure and transport	Kazufumi Taniguchi	Shūgiin	Kōmeitō	-
	Kosaburo Nishime	Shūgiin	LDP	Tsushima
	Naoki Okada	Sangiin	LDP	Machimura
environment	Yoshihisa Furukawa	Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
defense	Ryōta Takeda	Shūgiin	LDP	Yamasaki
	Nobuo Kishi	Sangiin	LDP	Machimura

Resignations, dismissals

• Minister of State Nakayama resigned on September 28, 2008 because of controversial statements against the teachers' union Nihon kyōshokuin kumiai .
• Parliamentary State Secretary Matsunami was dismissed on January 14 for his opposition to the government's supplementary budget.
• Finance Minister Nakagawa resigned on February 17, 2009.
• Treasury Secretary Hirata resigned on March 26, 2009 after violating the Cabinet Code of Ethics.
• The deputy chief cabinet secretary Kōnoike resigned on May 13, 2009 for personal reasons.
• Interior Minister Hatoyama resigned on June 12, 2009 in a dispute with Prime Minister Asō over the leadership of the JP Group .
• Parliamentary State Secretary Toida succeeded Hatoyama and resigned in June 2009.

swell

• Kantei , Japanese cabinet: 麻 生 内閣 (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asahi Shimbun, September 25: Aso Takes Top Job, Packs Cabinet with His Buddies ( Memento of September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} 麻 生 内閣 閣僚 名簿 等 ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 
3. ↑ 中山 国 交 相 が 辞 任 へ 問題 発 言 に 批判 、 麻 生 新政 権 に 打 撃. In: Asahi Shimbun. September 27, 2008, archived from the original on September 29, 2008 ; Retrieved September 27, 2008 (Japanese). 
4. ^ Budget Vote Rebel in Cabinet Office Loses Secretary Post. In: The Japan Times . January 15, 2009, accessed June 26, 2009 . 
5. ^ "I quit" - Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa. (No longer available online.) In: TODAYonline. February 18, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 18, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Cabinet Secretariat: 国務 大臣 、 副 大臣 及 び 大臣 政務 官 規範 ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Ethics Breach over Bloated Share Sale Undoes Vice Finance Minister. In: The Japan Times . March 27, 2009, accessed June 26, 2009 . 
8. ↑ Masami Itō: Cabinet Member Exits After Tryst. Konoike Lived It Up with Lover in Atami: Weekly. In: The Japan Times . May 14, 2009, accessed June 26, 2009 . 
9. ↑ Japan PM Loses Key Cabinet Ally. In: BBC News. June 12, 2009, accessed June 13, 2009 . 
10. ↑ Masami Itō: Hatoyama Quits Aso Cabinet. Refusal to Let Japan Post Boss Stay Spurs Exit. In: The Japan Times . June 13, 2009, accessed June 26, 2009 .