Hashimoto II cabinet

Hashimoto II cabinet
83rd Japanese Cabinet dai-83-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Ryūtaro Hashimoto
choice	Shūgiin election 1996
Legislative period	138-140. Kokkai (41st Shūgiin , 17th Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	November 7, 1996
The End	September 11, 1997
Duration	0 years and 308 days
predecessor	Hashimoto's I cabinet
successor	Hashimoto II cabinet (reshuffle)
composition
Party (s)	LDP ( tolerated by SDP and NPS )
minister	21st
State Secretaries	2 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 23 "Parliamentary Vice-Ministers"
representation
Shūgiin	245/500 (June 25, 1997)
Sangiin	110/251 (7/11/1996)
Opposition leader	Ichirō Ozawa (Shūgiin, NFP )

The second Hashimoto cabinet ( Japanese 第 2 次 橋本 内閣 dainiji Hashimoto naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Ryūtarō Hashimoto from November 7, 1996 until a cabinet reshuffle on September 11, 1997. The LDP had some with Hashimoto in the 1996 Shūgiin election who were able to win back the seats lost through the party withdrawals before the 1993 election and continued to rule with a pure LDP cabinet as a minority government tolerated by the Social Democratic Party and the New Sakigake Party .

Minister of State

2. Hashimoto's Cabinet - from November 7, 1996 until the cabinet reshuffle on September 11, 1997

Office	Surname	image	Political party	Faction
prime minister	Ryūtaro Hashimoto		LDP	( Obuchi )
Minister of Justice	Matsuura Isao		LDP	Obuchi
Foreign minister	Yukihiko Ikeda		LDP	Miyazawa
Finance minister	Hiroshi Mitsuzuka		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Minister of Education	Takashi Kosugi		LDP	Watanabe
Minister of Health and Social Affairs	Jun'ichirō Koizumi		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Takao Fujimoto		LDP	Kōmoto
Minister for International Trade and Industry	Shinji Sato		LDP	Obuchi
Minister of transport	Makoto Koga		LDP	Miyazawa
Post Minister	Horinouchi Hisao		LDP	Watanabe
Minister of Labor	Yutaka Okano		LDP	Obuchi
Building minister	Shizuka Kamei		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Public Security Commission	Katsuhiko Shirakawa		LDP	Miyazawa
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Seiroku Kajiyama		LDP	Obuchi
Head of the Authority for Management and Coordination	Kabun Mutō		LDP	Watanabe
Head of Defense	Fumio Kyūma		LDP	Obuchi
Head of the Economic Planning Office	Tarō Asō		LDP	Miyazawa
Head of Science and Technology Authority	Riichirō Chikaoka		LDP	Obuchi
Head of the environmental agency	Michiko Ishii		LDP	Miyazawa
Head of State Land Authority	Kōsuke Itō		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Head of the Hokkaidō Development Agency Head of the Okinawa Development Agency	Jitsuo Inagaki		LDP	Watanabe

Web links

• Kantei : List of Cabinet Members (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ membership of political groups ( Memento of 4 May 1997 at the Internet Archive ) shugiin.go.jp
2. ↑ List of the membership numbers of the political groups after the meeting. sangiin.go.jp

Note: The prime minister and party leader does not officially belong to any political group during his term of office.