Hatoyama Ichirō I cabinet

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Hatoyama when he was re-elected to Shūgiin in 1953 in the 1st constituency of Tokyo

The first Hatoyama cabinet ruled the state of Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō from December 10, 1954 to March 19, 1955.

The Cabinet upon taking office

Hatoyama, who had returned to politics after the lifting of the ban on the occupation authorities and a stroke, had voted with his supporters in 1953 for a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru . In the resulting new elections , he left the Liberal Party and founded the Liberal Party of Japan . Without the Hatoyama Liberals (35 seats), the Yoshida Liberals (199 seats) missed an absolute majority; but Yoshida initially formed a minority government, his fifth cabinet . However, his leadership style led to more and more resistance in his own ranks, and in the fall of 1954 more parts of the Liberal Party broke away and participated together with the Kaishinto (Progressive Party) and the Hatoyama Liberals in the establishment of the Democratic Party of Japan . When a vote of no confidence against Yoshida was requested on December 7th, his cabinet resigned because it could not foresee a majority in the Shūgiin. Two days later, on December 9, Hatoyama was elected prime minister against the liberal Ogata Taketora with the support of both wings of the Japanese Socialist Party - with the announcement of an imminent new election - and was formally appointed the following day. The cabinet consisted of twelve Shūgiin and three Sangiin MPs, as well as two non-members of parliament.

As early as January 24, 1955, Hatoyama dissolved the Shūgiin in the so-called ten no koe kaisan ("voice of heaven's dissolution"). The Democrats emerged from the new elections as the clearly strongest party, but without an absolute majority. On March 19, Hatoyama presented its second cabinet , again a minority government.

Minister of State

Hatoyama Cabinet - December 10, 1954 to March 19, 1955
Office Surname chamber fraction Faction / origin
prime minister Hatoyama Ichirō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Hatoyama
Deputy Prime
Minister Foreign Minister 		Shigemitsu Mamoru Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex- Kaishinto
Minister of Justice Hanamura Shirō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Hatoyama
Finance minister Ichimada Hisato - - -
Minister of Education Andō Masazumi Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Hatoyama
Minister of Social Affairs Tsurumi Yūsuke Sangiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto, Miki
Minister for Agriculture and Forests Kono Ichirō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Hatoyama
Minister for International Trade and Industry Ishibashi Tanzan Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ishibashi
Minister of transport Miki Bukichi Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto, Miki
Post Minister Takechi Yūki Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Kishi
Minister of Labor Chiba Saburō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
Building minister Takeyama Yūtaro Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto, Miki
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission Ōasa Tadao Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
Head of Administrative Supervision Authority
Head of Self-Government Authority 		Nishida Takao Sangiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
Head of the Hokkaidō Development Authority Miyoshi Hideyuki Sangiin Democratic Party of Japan Kishi
Head of Defense Ōmura Seiichi Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Kishi
Head of the Economic Advisory Authority Takasaki Tatsunosuke - - -

Note: Unlike later in the LDP , the factions were still informal groupings without fixed offices or institutions.

Other positions, state secretaries

State Secretaries in the First Cabinet of Hatoyama
Office Surname chamber fraction Faction / origin
Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office
Head of the Cabinet Secretariat Nemoto Ryūtaro Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Hatoyama
Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat Matsumoto Takizō Ex-Kaishinto
Tanaka Eiichi
from January 28, 1955 		- - -
Inoue Takuichi - - -
Head of the Legislative Office of the Cabinet Hayashi Shūzō
from December 11, 1954 		- - -
Parliamentary State Secretaries (seimujikan)
from December 14, 1954
Judiciary Sakurauchi Yoshio Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
Foreign Tokonami Tokuji Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
Finances Endō Saburō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
Culture Odaka Toshirō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Hatoyama
Social Nakagawa Shunji Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
Agriculture and forest Naitō Tomoaki Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
Trade and industry Yamamoto Katsuichi Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
traffic Hamachi Bumpei Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
post Office Kojima Tetsuzo Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
job Shiga Kenjirō Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
construction Tanaka Shōji Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
Administrative supervision Katō Takazō (?, 加藤 高 蔵 ) Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
Development of Hokkaidō Kimura Fumio Shūgiin
Self-management Andō Kaku Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
defense Takahashi Teiichi Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan Ex-Kaishinto
Economic advice Murase Norichika (?, 村 瀬 宣 親 ) Shūgiin Democratic Party of Japan
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Hatoyama is the family name, Ichirō the first name.

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