Cabinet Hara

The Cabinet Hara ( Japanese 原内閣 , Hara naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Hara Takashi from September 1918 to November 1921. With the exception of the Army , Navy and Foreign Ministers , it consisted of members of the Rikken Seiyūkai and is therefore the first "Real" party cabinet of Japan viewed.

After the resignation of Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake , the leading advisors of the Tennō saw no alternative to including the bourgeois parties in governance, and the Tennō appointed Hara, party leader of the Rikken Seiyūkai, as prime minister. The cabinet included five members of the Shūgiin , the elected lower house, and two members of the Kizokuin , the mansion. Chief Cabinet Secretary was Takahashi Kōe (Rikken Seiyūkai, Shūgiin, Niigata), head of the Legislative Office Yokota Sennosuke (Rikken Seiyūkai, Shūgiin, Tochigi).

The Shūgiin election on May 10, 1920 , which meant a reduction in the census restriction to 3 yen state tax and at the same time a return to single electoral districts and thus a simple majority vote, gave the Rikken Seiyūkai a clear absolute majority for the first time since the 1912 election.

After the assassination of Hara in 1921, Foreign Minister Uchida temporarily took over the post of Prime Minister before the Tennō appointed Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo as his successor on November 13, 1921.

Minister of State

**Hara cabinet** from September 29, 1918 to November 13, 1921
Office	Surname	Chamber of Parliament	Constituency / method	Party / parliamentary group
prime minister	Hara Takashi † November 4, 1921 Uchida Kōsai (acting)	Shūgiin -	Iwate, Morioka → Iwate 1 -	Rikken Seiyūkai -
Foreign minister	Uchida Kosai	-	-	-
Interior minister	Tokonami Takejirō	Shūgiin	Kagoshima, Kagoshima → Kagoshima 1	Rikken Seiyūkai
Finance minister	Baron → Vice Count Takahashi Korekiyo	Kizokuin	appointment	Rikken Seiyūkai
Army Minister	General Baron Tanaka Giichi until June 9, 1921 General Yamanashi Hanzo from June 9, 1921	- -	- -	- -
Naval Minister	Admiral Baron Katō Tomosaburō	-	-	-
Minister of Justice	Hara Takashi until May 15, 1920 Count Ōki Enkichi from May 15, 1920	Shūgiin Kizokuin	Iwate, Morioka → Iwate 1 nobility choice	Rikken Seiyūkai Kenkyūkai
Minister of Education	Nakahashi Tokugorō	Shūgiin	Ishikawa, Kanazawa → Ōsaka 3	Rikken Seiyūkai
Minister for Agriculture and Trade	Baron Yamamoto Tatsuo	Kizokuin	appointment
Communications minister	Noda Utaro	Shūgiin	Fukuoka Land → Fukuoka 12	Rikken Seiyūkai
Minister of Railways from May 15, 1920	Motoda Hajime	Shūgiin	Ōita → Ōita 6	Rikken Seiyūkai

Web links

Kantei , Japanese cabinet: Hara cabinet (Japanese)