Cabinet Kan
Cabinet Kan | |
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94. Japanese Cabinet dai-94-dai naikaku |
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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
Office | Surname | image | chamber | fraction | Faction (s) |
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prime minister | 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 | Shūgiin | DPJ | Hata | |
Minister of Justice | Keiko Chiba | Sangiin → - | DPJ | Yokomichi | |
Foreign minister | Katsuya Okada | Shūgiin | DPJ | - | |
Finance minister | Yoshihiko Noda | Shūgiin | DPJ | Noda | |
Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology Minister of State for Science & Technology Policy |
Tatsuo Kawabata | Shūgiin | DPJ | Kawabata | |
Minister of Health, Labor and Social Affairs responsible for pension reform |
Akira Nagatsuma | Shūgiin | DPJ | - | |
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries | Masahiko Yamada | Shūgiin | DPJ | Ozawa | |
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry | Masayuki Naoshima | Sangiin | DPJ | Kawabata, Hatoyama | |
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs |
Seiji Maehara | Shūgiin | DPJ | Maehara | |
Environment Minister | Sakihito Ozawa | Shūgiin | DPJ | Hatoyama | |
Defense Minister | Toshimi Kitazawa | Sangiin | DPJ | Hata | |
Chief Cabinet Secretary | |||||
Chief Cabinet Secretary | 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 | Shūgiin | DPJ | Ozawa, Kawabata | |
Minister of State for the Financial Sector responsible for postal reform |
Shizuka Kamei until June 11, 2010 |
Shūgiin | New People's Party | - | |
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 | Shūgiin | DPJ | Can | |
Minister of State for Combating the Fall in Births, Gender Equality responsible for reforming the civil service |
Kōichirō Gemba | Shūgiin | DPJ | Maehara | |
Minister of State for the "renewal of the administration" (gyōsei sasshin) | 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:
- Yoshito Sengoku,
- Katsuya Okada,
- Seiji Maehara,
- Hiroshi Nakai and
- 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.
Office | Surname | chamber | fraction | Faction (s) |
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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
- Kantei , Japanese cabinet: 閣僚 名簿 等 (Japanese), List of Kan Cabinet Members (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Agence France-Presse , June 10, 2010: Japanese Minister to Resign over Postal Reform