Cabinet Kan (1st reshuffle)

Cabinet Kan (1st reshuffle)
94th Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-94-dai naikaku (kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Naoto Kan
Legislative period	176. Kokkai (45th Shūgiin , 22nd Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	17th September 2010
The End	January 14, 2011
Duration	0 years and 119 days
predecessor	Cabinet Kan
successor	Cabinet Kan (2nd reshuffle)
composition
Party (s)	DP , NVP
minister	18 (1 resignation)
State Secretaries	3 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 2 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 22 "Vice Ministers" 26 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	312/480 (27/10/2010)
Sangiin	110/242 (07/31/2010)
Opposition leader	Sadakazu Tanigaki (Shūgiin, LDP )

The first reshuffle of the Kan cabinet ( Japanese 菅 改造 内閣 , Kan kaizō naikaku ) ruled Japan from a cabinet reshuffle on September 17, 2010 to a further reshuffle on January 14, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan had the election on September 14, 2010 won the position of chairman of the Democratic Party and then re-appointed the state and party leadership. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada moved to the party leadership as General Secretary.

Six ministers of state were taken over from the previous cabinet, five of them retained their old portfolio. When he took office, including the Prime Minister, there were twelve ministers in the Shūgiin, the lower house, and five in the Sangiin, the upper house.

One day after the Democratic Party conference on January 13, 2011, Kan reformed the cabinet again.

Minister of State

Remodeled Kan cabinet - from September 17, 2010 to January 14, 2011

Office	Surname	image	chamber	fraction	Faction (s)
prime minister	Naoto Kan		Shūgiin	DPJ	( Kan )
Ministers of State who run a ministry
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communication Minister of State for the “Promotion of the Sovereignty of the Regions” (chiiki shuken suishin)    responsible for the “revitalization of the regions” (chiiki kasseika)	Yoshihiro Katayama		-	-	-
Minister of Justice    responsible for the kidnapping issue	Minoru Yanagida until November 22, 2010		Sangiin	DPJ	Kawabata
	Yoshito Sengoku from November 22, 2010		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Foreign minister	Seiji Maehara		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Finance minister	Yoshihiko Noda		Shūgiin	DPJ	Noda
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Yoshiaki Takaki		Shūgiin	DPJ	Kawabata
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Ritsuo Hosokawa		Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Michihiko Kano		Shūgiin	DPJ	-
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry	Akihiro Ōhata		Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories    Affairs in charge of maritime affairs	Sumio Mabuchi		Shūgiin	DPJ	-
Environment Minister State Minister for Civil Protection	Ryu Matsumoto		Shūgiin	DPJ	Yokomichi
Defense Minister	Toshimi Kitazawa		Sangiin	DPJ	Hata
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Yoshito Sengoku		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Minister of State without a ministry
Chair of the National Public Safety Commission Minister of State for Consumers and Food Safety, Combating the Decline of Births, Gender Equality	Tomiko Okazaki		Sangiin	DPJ	Yokomichi
Minister of State for the Financial Sector    responsible for postal reform	Shōzaburō Jimi		Sangiin	New People's Party	-
Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy, Science & Technology Policy,    responsible for space development	Banri Kaieda		Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Minister of State for "New Community" (atarashii kōkyō)    responsible for "National Strategy" (kokka senryaku)	Kōichirō Gemba		Shūgiin	DPJ	-
Minister of State for the “Renewal of Administration” (gyōsei sasshin)    responsible for reforming the civil service	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. Seiji Maehara,
3. Michihiko Kano,
4. Toshimi Kitazawa and
5. Ritsuo Hosokawa.

State Secretaries

When the Minister of State took office, the term of office of the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries and the Head of the Cabinet's Legislative Office began . The State Secretaries ( fuku-daijin, "Vice Minister", English Senior Vice Minister ) and the Parliamentary State Secretaries ( daijin seimukan, English Parliamentary Secretary ) were appointed on September 21, 2010.

State secretaries in the reshaped cabinet Kan

Office	Surname	chamber	fraction	Faction (s)
Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office
Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat	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 the regeneration of rural areas	Katsuya Ogawa	Sangiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Special advisor for national strategy	Kōichi Katō	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
Special advisor for renewal of administration and public relations	Manabu Terata	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
State Secretaries ("Vice Ministers")
Cabinet Office	Shōzō Azuma	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Yoshinori Suematsu	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
	Tatsuo Hirano	Sangiin	DPJ	Ozawa
Internal affairs and communication	Katsumasa Suzuki	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Hideo Hiraoka	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
Judiciary	Toshio Ogawa	Sangiin	DPJ	Can
Foreign Affairs	Yutaka Banno	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Takeaki Matsumoto	Shūgiin	DPJ	Noda
Finances	Fumihiko Igarashi	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
	Mitsuru Sakurai	Sangiin	DPJ
Education, culture, sports, science and technology	Ryūzō Sasaki	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
	Kan Suzuki	Sangiin	DPJ	Maehara , Hatoyama
Work, health and social affairs	Yōko Komiyama	Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
	Osamu Fujimura	Shūgiin	DPJ	Noda
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Takashi Shinohara	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
	Nobutaka Tsutsui	Shūgiin	DPJ	Yokomichi
Economy, trade and industry	Motohisa Ikeda	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
	Tadahiro Matsushita	Shūgiin	New People's Party	-
Land, infrastructure and transport	Wakio Mitsui	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa, Kawabata , Hatoyama
	Shūji Ikeguchi	Sangiin	DPJ
environment	Shōichi Kondō	Shūgiin	DPJ	Kondō-hiraoka
defense	Jun Azumi	Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Parliamentary State Secretaries ("Parliamentary Secretaries")
Cabinet Office	Yukihiko Akutsu	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
	Yasuhiro Sonoda	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hata
	Takashi Wada	Shūgiin	DPJ
Internal affairs and communication	Akira Uchiyama	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Seiji Osaka	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Takashi Morita	Sangiin	New People's Party	-
Judiciary	Takahiro Kuroiwa	Shūgiin	DPJ
Foreign Affairs	Makiko Kikuta	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa, Kawabata
	Ikuo Yamahana	Shūgiin	DPJ	Yokomichi
	Hisashi Tokunaga	Sangiin	DPJ	Maehara
Finances	Izumi Yoshida	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
	Motoyuki Odachi	Sangiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Education, culture, sports, science and technology	Hirofumi Ryu	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hata
	Kumiko Hayashi	Sangiin	DPJ
Work, health and social affairs	Mitsunori Okamoto	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Masao Kobayashi	Sangiin	DPJ
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Masayo Tanabu	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa, Hata
	Kenko Matsuki	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
Economy, trade and industry	Kaname Tajima	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Yoshikatsu Nakyama	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Land, infrastructure and transport	Kōichirō Ichimura	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Toshiaki Koizumi	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Shōgo Tsugawa	Shūgiin	DPJ	-
environment	Takeshi Hidaka	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
defense	Daisuke Matsumoto	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Hajime Hirota	Sangiin	DPJ

resignation

• Justice Minister Yanagida resigned from the threat of a "complaint resolution" (monseki ketsugian) in Sangiin after controversial statements about information to parliament.

Web links

• Kantei , Japanese cabinet: 閣僚 名簿 等 (Japanese), List of Kan Cabinet Members (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 首相 臨時 代理 、 仙 谷 氏 が １ 位 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . September 17, 2010, Retrieved September 17, 2010 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Japan's Justice Minister Yanagida Quits over Gaffe. In: BBC News . November 22, 2010, accessed November 22, 2010 .