Cabinet Kan

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Cabinet Kan
94. Japanese Cabinet
dai-94-dai naikaku
The cabinet after the inauguration ceremony for the ministers
Prime Minister
Naikaku Sōri-Daijin
Naoto Kan
Legislative period 174-175. Kokkai
(45th Shūgiin , 22nd Sangiin )
Appointed by Emperor Akihito
education June 8, 2010
The End 17th September 2010
Duration 0 years and 101 days
predecessor Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet
successor Cabinet Kan (1st reshuffle)
composition
Party (s) DP , NVP
minister 17 (1 resignation)
State Secretaries 4 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister
3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat
22 "Vice Ministers"
26 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin
311/478

(17.6.2010)
Sangiin
122/241

(6/30/2010)
Opposition leader Sadakazu Tanigaki (Shūgiin, LDP )

The Kan cabinet ( Japanese 菅 内閣 , Kan naikaku ) ruled Japan from the formal appointment of Naoto Kan as prime minister on June 8, 2010 to a cabinet reshuffle on September 17, 2010 . After Yukio Hatoyama's resignation , Kan was elected chairman of the Democratic Party (DPJ) on June 4, 2010 and then prime minister in parliament. In the decisive vote in the Shūgiin , the lower house, Kan received 313 of 477 votes, in the Sangiin , the upper house, 123 of 237 votes. The cabinet was presented on June 8, 2010 after a conference of the coalition parties Democratic Party and New People's Party by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku in the Kantei , then Kan gave a first press conference as Prime Minister, followed by the formal appointment by the Tennō .

11 ministers of state were taken over from the previous cabinet. When he took office, there were 13 ministers in the Shūgiin and four in the Sangiin.

Minister of State

Kan Cabinet - June 8, 2010 through September 17, 2010 reshuffle
Office Surname image chamber fraction Faction (s)
prime minister Naoto Kan Naoto Kan Shūgiin DPJ ( Kan )
Ministers of State who run a ministry
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication
Minister of State for "Promotion of the Sovereignty of the Regions" (chiiki shuken suishin)
Kazuhiro Haraguchi Kazuhiro Haraguchi Shūgiin DPJ Hata
Minister of Justice Keiko Chiba Keiko Chiba  Sangiin → - DPJ Yokomichi
Foreign minister Katsuya Okada Katsuya Okada  Shūgiin DPJ -
Finance minister Yoshihiko Noda Yoshihiko Noda Shūgiin DPJ Noda
Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology
Minister of State for Science & Technology Policy
Tatsuo Kawabata Tatsuo Kawabata Shūgiin DPJ Kawabata
Minister of Health, Labor and Social Affairs
   responsible for pension reform
Akira Nagatsuma Akira Nagatsuma  Shūgiin DPJ -
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries Masahiko Yamada Masahiko Yamada  Shūgiin DPJ Ozawa
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Masayuki Naoshima Masayuki Naoshima  Sangiin DPJ Kawabata, Hatoyama
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Seiji Maehara Seiji Maehara  Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa Sakahito Ozawa  Shūgiin DPJ Hatoyama
Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa Toshimi Kitazawa Sangiin DPJ Hata
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku Yoshito Sengoku Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Minister of State without a ministry
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission
Minister of State for Civil Protection
   responsible for the kidnapping issue
Hiroshi Nakai Hiroshi Nakai  Shūgiin DPJ Ozawa, Kawabata
Minister of State for the Financial Sector
   responsible for postal reform
Shizuka Kamei
until June 11, 2010
Shizuka Kamei  Shūgiin New People's Party -
Shōzaburō Jimi Shōzaburō Jimi  Sangiin New People's Party -
Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy, Consumers and Food Safety
   responsible for "National Strategy" (kokka senryaku)
Satoshi Arai Satoshi Arai Shūgiin DPJ Can
Minister of State for Combating the Fall in Births, Gender Equality
   responsible for reforming the civil service
Kōichirō Gemba Kōichirō Gemba Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Minister of State for the "renewal of the administration" (gyōsei sasshin) Renhō (Murata) Renhō Murata Sangiin DPJ Noda

Note: The Prime Minister does not officially belong to any political group during his term of office.

The ministers of state without a ministry are naikaku-fu tokumei tantō daijin ("Minister of State at the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks"). Additional special areas of responsibility in italics.

The following were designated as possible representatives of the Prime Minister under Article 9 of the Cabinet Act:

  1. Yoshito Sengoku,
  2. Katsuya Okada,
  3. Seiji Maehara,
  4. Hiroshi Nakai and
  5. Keiko Chiba.

State Secretaries

When the Minister of State took office, the term of office of the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries, the Head of the Cabinet's Legislative Office and the Prime Minister's special advisers began . The State Secretaries ( fuku-daijin, "Vice Minister", English Senior Vice Minister ) and the Parliamentary State Secretaries ( daijin seimukan, English Parliamentary Secretary ) took up their positions on June 9, 2010.

State Secretaries in the Cabinet Kan
Office Surname chamber fraction Faction (s)
Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries Motohisa Furukawa Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Tetsuro Fukuyama Sangiin DPJ Maehara
Kin'ya Takino - - -
Head of the Legislative Office of the Cabinet Shin'ichirō Kajita - - -
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
Special advisor for SME policy, activation of the regions Yukihiko Akutsu Shūgiin DPJ Can
Special advisor for the regeneration of rural areas Katsuya Ogawa Sangiin DPJ Hatoyama
Special advisor for activation and sovereignty of the regions, regional administrations Seiji Osaka Shūgiin DPJ Can
Special advisor for national strategy Manabu Terata Shūgiin DPJ Can
State Secretaries ("Vice Ministers")
Cabinet Office Atsushi Ōshima Shūgiin DPJ Hatoyama
Hideo Hiraoka Shūgiin DPJ Can
Kōhei Ōtsuka Sangiin DPJ -
Internal affairs and communication Shu Watanabe Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Masamitsu Naitō Sangiin DPJ Can
Judiciary Kōichi Katō Shūgiin DPJ Can
Foreign Affairs Kōichi Takemasa Shūgiin DPJ Noda , Ozawa
Osamu Fujimura Shūgiin DPJ Noda
Finances Motohisa Ikeda Shūgiin DPJ Can
Naoki Minezaki Sangiin → - DPJ Yokomichi
Education, culture, sports, science and technology Masaharu Nakagawa Shūgiin DPJ Hata
Kan Suzuki Sangiin DPJ Maehara, Hatoyama
Work, health and social affairs Ritsuo Hosokawa Shūgiin DPJ Can
Hiroyuki Nagahama Sangiin DPJ Noda
Agriculture, forestry and fishing Takashi Shinohara Shūgiin DPJ Can
Akira Gunji Sangiin DPJ Yokomichi
Economy, trade and industry Tadahiro Matsushita Shūgiin New People's Party -
Teruhiko Mashiko Sangiin DPJ Hata
Land, infrastructure and transport Taizō Mikazuki Shūgiin DPJ Kawabata , Hatoyama
Sumio Mabuchi Shūgiin DPJ -
environment Issei Tajima Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
defense Kazuya Shimba Sangiin DPJ Hatoyama
Parliamentary State Secretaries ("Parliamentary Secretaries")
Cabinet Office Kenta Izumi Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Kenji Tamura Shūgiin DPJ Can
Keisuke Tsumura Shūgiin DPJ Kan, Maehara
Internal affairs and communication Jun'ya Ogawa Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Takeshi Shina Shūgiin DPJ Ozawa
Kensei Hasegawa Sangiin New People's Party -
Judiciary Tetsuji Nakamura Sangiin DPJ Maehara
Foreign Affairs Shūji Kira Shūgiin DPJ Ozawa
Chinami Nishimura Shūgiin DPJ Can
Finances Hiroshi Ōgushi Shūgiin DPJ Noda
Shin'ichirō Furumoto Shūgiin DPJ Kawabata, Hatoyama
Education, culture, sports, science and technology Hitoshi Gotō Shūgiin DPJ Hata
Miho Takai Shūgiin DPJ Maehara, Noda
Work, health and social affairs Kazunori Yamanoi Shūgiin DPJ Maehara, Kan
Shin'ya Adachi Sangiin DPJ -
Agriculture, forestry and fishing Takahiro Sasaki Shūgiin DPJ Yokomichi
Yasue Funayama Sangiin DPJ Can
Economy, trade and industry Yōsuke Kondō Shūgiin DPJ Noda
Chiaki Takahashi Sangiin DPJ Hatoyama
Land, infrastructure and transport Shōgo Tsugawa Shūgiin DPJ -
Takashi Nagayasu Shūgiin DPJ Maehara
Yūji Fujimoto Sangiin DPJ Noda
environment Nobumori Ōtani Shūgiin DPJ -
defense Daizō Kusuda Shūgiin DPJ Hata, Noda
Akihisa Nagashima Shūgiin DPJ Noda, Kan

resignation

  • Minister of State Kamei announced his resignation on June 11, 2010 in the dispute over the reform law on post-privatization initiated in 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agence France-Presse , June 10, 2010: Japanese Minister to Resign over Postal Reform