Cabinet Kan (2nd reshuffle)

Cabinet Kan (2nd reshuffle)
94th Japanese Cabinet (2nd transformation) dai-94-dai naikaku (dai-2-ji-kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Naoto Kan
Legislative period	177th NV (45th Abg . House , 22nd Senate )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	January 14, 2011
The End	September 2, 2011
Duration	0 years and 231 days
predecessor	Cabinet Kan (1st reshuffle)
successor	Cabinet Noda
composition
Party (s)	DPJ , NVP
minister	20 (2 resignations)
State Secretaries	9 Special Advisor to the Prime Minister 4 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 24 "Vice Ministers" 28 "Parliamentary State Secretaries"
representation
House of Representatives	311/478 (24.1.2011)
senate	109/242 (July 15, 2011)
Opposition leader	Sadakazu Tanigaki (Ed., LDP )

The Kan cabinet, reorganized for the second time, ruled Japan from January 14 to September 2, 2011 under the leadership of Prime Minister Naoto Kan , leader of the Democratic Party (DPJ).

Kan had tried to find partners for the budget consultations that began at the end of January 2011, but had not been able to agree on a cooperation with either Tachiagare Nippon or the Social Democratic Party . The opposition called for the replacement of Yoshito Sengoku and Sumio Mabuchi, against whom non-binding motions of censure had been passed in the Sangiin in November 2010 . It can prevent the Sangiin majority from passing the budget. After the Democratic Party's conference on January 13, 2011, Kan re-appointed his cabinet and party leadership. Most of the ministers were taken over from the previous cabinet, while cabinet secretary Yoshito Sengoku moved from the cabinet to the party leadership. Yosano Kaoru, who had left the Tachiagare Nippon the day before, became Minister of State. For the coalition partner of the Democratic Party, the New People's Party (NVP), Shōzaburō Jimi remained in the cabinet.

After the Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011 (also known as the Great East Japanese Earthquake), Kan offered LDP chairman Sadakazu Tanigaki to work in the cabinet to deal with the consequences. Like earlier, less specific offers from a grand coalition, the LDP rejected this.

On August 30, 2011, the Kan cabinet resigned before the election of a new prime minister; the successor Cabinet of Yoshihiko Noda started its work on 2 September 2011th

Minister of State

Reshaped Kan cabinet - from January 14, 2011 to September 2, 2011, executive from August 30, 2011

Office	Surname	image	chamber	fraction	Faction (s)
prime minister	Naoto Kan		Shūgiin	DPJ	( Kan )
Ministers of State who run a ministry
Minister of 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	Satsuki Eda		Sangiin	DPJ	Can
Foreign minister	Seiji Maehara (until March 7, 2011)		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
	Yukio Edano (acting)		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
	Takeaki Matsumoto (from March 9, 2011)		Shūgiin	DPJ	Noda
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    responsible for economic damage caused by nuclear power (from April 4, 2011)	Banri Kaieda		Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport    responsible for maritime affairs	Akihiro Ōhata		Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Environment Minister	Ryū Matsumoto (until June 27, 2011)		Shūgiin	DPJ	Yokomichi
	Satsuki Eda (from June 27, 2011)		Sangiin	DPJ	Can
Defense Minister	Toshimi Kitazawa		Sangiin	DPJ	Hata
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minister of State for Affairs of Okinawa and the Northern Territories Minister of State for "Renewal of Administration" (gyōsei sasshin) (from June 27, 2011)	Yukio Edano		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Minister of State without a ministry
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission in    charge of kidnapping , reform of the civil service	Kansei Nakano		Shūgiin	DPJ	Kawabata
Minister of State for the Financial Sector    responsible for postal reform	Shōzaburō Jimi		Sangiin	NVP	-
Minister of State for the “renewal of administration” (gyōsei sasshin), consumer and food safety    responsible for educating people about saving electricity (setsuden keihatsu) (from March 11, 2011)	Renhō (Murata) (until June 27, 2011)		Sangiin	DPJ	Noda
Minister of State for Consumers and Food Safety    responsible for "education about energy saving" (setsuden keihatsu)    responsible for the "normalization and relapse prevention of nuclear power accidents" (gempatsu jiko no shūsoku oyobi saihatsu bōshi) (from June 27, 2011)	Gōshi Hosono (from June 27, 2011)		Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Minister of State for Economic and Financial Policy, Combating the Decline of Births, Gender Equality    Responsible for "integrated or fundamental social security and tax reform" (shakai hoshō, zei ittai kaikaku)	Kaoru Yosano		Shūgiin	DPJ (from January 18, 2011)	-
Minister of State for “New Community” (atarashii kōkyō), Science & Technology Policy    responsible for “National Strategy” (kokka senryaku), space development	Kōichirō Gemba		Shūgiin	DPJ	Gemba (from March 9, 2011)
Minister of State for Disaster Management    responsible for the reconstruction after the Great East Japanese Earthquake (from June 27, 2011)	Ryū Matsumoto (until July 5, 2011)		Shūgiin	DPJ	Yokomichi
	Tatsuo Hirano (from July 5, 2011)		Sangiin	DPJ	Ozawa

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. Yukio Edano,
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 prime minister's special advisers and state secretaries in the ministries were appointed a few days later, most of them being taken over from the previous cabinet.

State Secretaries, Special Advisers to the Reformed Cabinet Kan

Office	Surname	chamber	fraction	Faction (s)
Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office
Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat	Hirohisa Fujii (until March 17, 2011)	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Yoshito Sengoku (from March 17, 2011)	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 National Strategy, Parliamentary Affairs (until March 17, 2011)	Kōichi Katō	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
Special advisor for integrated social security and tax reform, regulation of ministries and authorities (from March 17, 2011)	Hirohisa Fujii	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
Special advisor for accidents with nuclear power plants caused by the Pacific Tōhoku earthquake (March 26 to June 27, 2011)	Sumio Mabuchi	Shūgiin	DPJ	-
Special advisor for the activity of volunteer disaster relief workers (from March 13, 2011)	Kiyomi Tsujimoto	Shūgiin	DPJ	-
Special advisor for the renewal of the administration and public relations (March 26 to June 27, 2011)	Manabu Terata	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
Special advisor for consumer protection and food safety, renewal of the administration (from June 27, 2011)	Renhō (Murata)	Sangiin	DPJ	Noda
Special advisor for integrated social security and tax reform, parliamentary affairs (until April 2011) Special advisor for handling and providing information on accidents in nuclear power plants (April to 27 June 2011)	Goshi Hosono	Shūgiin	DPJ	Maehara
Special advisor for political leadership under the primacy of politics, parliamentary affairs	Hirokazu Shiba	Sangiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Special advisor for "important political measures of the cabinet as a whole" (naikaku no jūyō seisaku zempan) (from June 27, 2011)	Shizuka Kamei	Shūgiin	NVP	-
Vice Minister ( Fuku-Daijin )
Cabinet Office	Shōzō Azuma	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Yoshinori Suematsu	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
	Tatsuo Hirano (until July 5, 2011)	Sangiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (from July 5, 2011)	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hata
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	Hatoyama
	Takeaki Matsumoto until March 9, 2011	Shūgiin	DPJ	Noda
	Chiaki Takahashi from March 10, 2011	Sangiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Finances	Fumihiko Igarashi	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
	Mitsuru Sakurai	Sangiin	DPJ	Can
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
	Kōhei Ōtsuka	Sangiin	DPJ	-
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	NVP	-
Land, infrastructure and transport	Wakio Mitsui	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa, Kawabata , Hatoyama
	Shūji Ikeguchi	Sangiin	DPJ
environment	Shōichi Kondō	Shūgiin	DPJ	Kondō-hiraoka
defense	Katsuya Ogawa	Sangiin	DPJ	Hatoyama
Parliamentary State Secretaries ( Daijin Seimukan )
Cabinet Office	Yukihiko Akutsu	Shūgiin	DPJ	Can
	Yasuhiro Sonoda	Shūgiin	DPJ	Hata
	Takashi Wada	Shūgiin	DPJ
Internal affairs and communication	Akira Uchiyama until June 27, 2011	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Seiji Osaka	Shūgiin	DPJ
	Takashi Morita	Sangiin	NVP	-
	Kazuyuki Hamada from June 27, 2011	Sangiin	LDP until July 5, 2011
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
	Kenkō Matsuki until February 24, 2011	Shūgiin	DPJ	Ozawa
	Kōichi Yoshida from February 25, 2011	Shūgiin	DPJ
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

Resignations

• The Parliamentary State Secretary Matsuki resigned on February 24, 2011 in the intra-party power struggle between Naoto Kan and Ichirō Ozawa .
• Foreign Minister Maehara resigned on March 7, 2011 after violating the Political Money Act (seiji-shikin-kisei-hō) by accepting political donations from a foreigner .
• Reconstruction Minister Matsumoto resigned on July 5, 2011 after controversial statements in meetings with Governors Takuya Tasso and Yoshihiro Murai .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ LDP Resists “Grand coalition” / Party Willing to Help with Disaster Efforts - But Not Within Cabinet. In: Yomiuri Shimbun . March 21, 2011, accessed March 20, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Natsuko Fukue: Ozawa Ally Quits Farm Post, Fanning Fears of DPJ Meltdown. In: The Japan Times . February 25, 2011, accessed February 25, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Japan Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara Resigns. In: BBC News . March 6, 2011, accessed March 7, 2011 . 
4. ^ Reconstruction Minister Quits After Week. Matsumoto Exit over Outbursts Puts Kan Cabinet in Deeper Mess. In: The Japan Times . July 5, 2011, accessed July 5, 2011 .