Hatoyama Ichirō I cabinet
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.
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
Office | Surname | chamber | fraction | Faction / origin |
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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
Office | Surname | chamber | fraction | Faction / origin |
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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 |
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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 |
Web links
- Kantei , Japanese cabinet: first cabinet Hatoyama (Japanese)