Cabinet Koizumi II

Cabinet Koizumi II
88. Japanese Cabinet dai-88-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Jun'ichirō Koizumi
choice	Shūgiin election 2003
Legislative period	158-161. Kokkai (43rd Shūgiin , 19th – 20th Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	November 29, 2003
The End	September 27, 2004
Duration	0 years and 303 days
predecessor	Cabinet Koizumi I (2nd transformation)
successor	Koizumi II cabinet (reshuffle)
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government, initially together with NKP
minister	18 (1 resignation)
State Secretaries	4 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Deputy Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 22 "Vice Ministers" 27 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	281/480 (at the premier election on November 29, 2003)
Sangiin	136/242 (at the premier election)
Opposition leader	* until May 18: Naoto Kan (Shūgiin, DPJ ) from May 18: Katsuya Okada (Shūgiin, DPJ)

The second cabinet Koizumi ( Japanese 第 2 次 小泉 内閣 , dainiji Koizumi naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi from November 19, 2003 until a cabinet reshuffle on September 27, 2004. The LDP had in the Shūgiin election 2003 lost their absolute majority in the Shūgiin, but Koizumi was able to continue to govern with the support of coalition partners Kōmeitō and New Conservative Party (which merged with the LDP two days after the cabinet was appointed). In the Sangiin election in July 2004 , the LDP received fewer votes than the Democratic Party for the first time and also lost the absolute majority in the Sangiin, here too they only reached Koizumi with the help of the Komeito and at the same time rejected requests for resignation.

Minister of State

2. Koizumi Cabinet - from November 19, 2003 to September 27, 2004

Office	Surname	image	Political party	Faction
prime minister	Jun'ichirō Koizumi		LDP	( Mori )
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication	Tarō Asō		LDP	Kono
Minister of Justice	Daizō Nozawa		LDP	Mori
Foreign Minister	Yoriko Kawaguchi		LDP	-
Finance minister	Sadakazu Tanigaki		LDP	Ozato
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Takeo Kawamura		LDP	Hashimoto
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Chikara Sakaguchi		Kōmeitō	-
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Yoshiyuki Kamei		LDP	Yamasaki
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry    responsible for the world exhibition	Shōichi Nakagawa		LDP	Kamei
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport    responsible for the transfer of capital city functions and tourism	Nobuteru Ishihara		LDP	-
Environment Minister    responsible for global environmental issues	Yuriko Koike		LDP	Mori
Chief Cabinet Secretary State Minister for Gender Equality	Yasuo Fukuda until May 7, 2004		LDP	Mori
	Hiroyuki Hosoda from May 7, 2004		LDP	Mori
Chair of the National Public Safety Commission Minister of State for Youth Education and Combating the Decline of Births, Food Safety	Kiyoko Ono		LDP	Kamei
Head of Defense	Shigeru Ishiba		LDP	Hashimoto
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs , Data Protection, Science and Technology Policy,    responsible for IT policy	Toshimitsu Motegi		LDP	Hashimoto
Minister of State for the Financial Sector, Economic and Tax Policy	Heizō Takenaka		LDP	-
Minister of State for Deregulation, Industrial Revitalization,    responsible for administrative reform, structural reform in special areas, regional reform	Kazuyoshi Kaneko		LDP	Horiuchi
Minister of State for Disaster Management Minister of State for National Emergency Legislation	Kiichi Inoue		NKP → LDP	- → Nikai

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

resignation

• Cabinet Secretary Fukuda resigned as the only minister concerned because of a scandal involving missed payments into the state pension system, in which Prime Minister Koizumi and a number of other government and opposition politicians were also involved.

swell

• UCI, Center for the Study of Democracy
• Kantei, Japanese cabinet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shūgiin: Minutes of Sessions 158. Kokkai, No. 1 November 29, appointment of a prime minister
2. ^ Japan Minister Quits over Scandal. In: BBC News. May 7, 2004, accessed March 1, 2008 .