Hashimoto II cabinet (reshuffle)

Hashimoto II cabinet (reshuffle)
83rd Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-83-dai naikaku (kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Ryūtaro Hashimoto
Legislative period	141-143. Kokkai (41st Shūgiin , 17th-18th Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	September 11, 1997
The End	July 30, 1998
Duration	0 years and 322 days
predecessor	Hashimoto II cabinet
successor	Cabinet Obuchi
composition
Party (s)	LDP
minister	21 (3 resignations)
State Secretaries	2 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 23 "Parliamentary Vice-Ministers"
representation
Shūgiin	259/498 (5.2.1998)
Sangiin	119/252 (8.1.1998)
Opposition leader	until 31.12 .: Ichirō Ozawa (Shūgiin, NFP ) from 1.1. until 6.1 .: Naoto Kan (Shūgiin, DPJ ) from 7.1. until April 26th: Megumu Satō (Shūgiin, Kokumin ) from April 27th: Naoto Kan (Shūgiin, DPJ)

The reorganized second cabinet Hashimoto ( Japanese 第 2 次 橋本 改造 内閣 , dainiji Hashimoto kaizō naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Ryūtarō Hashimoto from September 11, 1997 until his resignation on July 30, 1998. Hashimoto was unopposed on September 11th was re-elected as LDP chairman and thereupon formed the previously ruling second Hashimoto cabinet . In the Sangiin election in July 1998 , the LDP lost 15 seats and failed to achieve its goal of regaining an absolute majority in the Sangiin. Hashimoto announced his resignation on July 13, the cabinet was replaced on July 30 by the successor government under Keizo Obuchi .

Minister of State

2. Hashimoto's Cabinet - from the reshuffle of September 11, 1997 to July 30, 1998

Office	Surname	image	Political party	Faction
prime minister	Ryūtaro Hashimoto		LDP	( Obuchi )
Minister of Justice	Kōkichi Shimoinaba		LDP	-
Foreign minister	Keizo Obuchi		LDP	Obuchi
Finance minister	Hiroshi Mitsuzuka until January 28, 1998		LDP	Mitsuzuka
	Ryūtarō Hashimoto provisionally		LDP	(Obuchi)
	Hikaru Matsunaga from January 30, 1998		LDP	Watanabe
Minister of Education	Nobutaka Machimura		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Minister of Health and Social Affairs	Jun'ichirō Koizumi		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Ochi Ihei until September 26, 1997		LDP	Watanabe
	Yoshinobu Shimamura from September 26, 1997		LDP	Watanabe
Minister for International Trade and Industry	Mitsuo Horiuchi		LDP	Miyazawa
Minister of transport	Takao Fujii		LDP	Obuchi
Post Minister	Shōzaburō Jimi		LDP	Watanabe
Minister of Labor	Bunmei Ibuki		LDP	Watanabe
Building minister	Tsutomu Kawara		LDP	Miyazawa
Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Public Security Commission	Mitsuhiro Uesugi		LDP	Obuchi
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Kanezō Muraoka		LDP	Obuchi
Head of the Authority for Management and Coordination	Kōkō Satō until September 22, 1997		LDP	Watanabe
	Sadatoshi Ozato from September 22, 1997		LDP	Miyazawa
Head of Defense	Fumio Kyūma		LDP	Obuchi
Head of the Economic Planning Office	Kōji Omi		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Head of Science and Technology Authority	Sadakazu Tanigaki		LDP	Miyazawa
Head of the Environment Agency	Hiroshi Ōki		LDP	Obuchi
Head of State Land Authority	Hisaoki Kamei		LDP	Miyazawa
Head of the Hokkaidō Development Agency Head of the Okinawa Development Agency	Muneo Suzuki		LDP	Obuchi

Resignations

• Finance Minister Mitsuzaka resigned on January 28, 1998 following a corruption scandal.
• Agriculture Minister Ihei resigned on September 26, 1997 after suffering an ischemic stroke .
• The head of the Department of Management and Coordination Satō resigned on September 22, 1997 after his involvement in the Lockheed scandal had been proven.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ shugiin.go.jp - Membership numbers of the political groups ( Memento of February 5, 1998 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ sangiin.go.jp - Membership numbers of the political groups ( Memento of January 29, 1998 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Kantei : List of Cabinet Members (Japanese)

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