Cabinet Koizumi III

Cabinet Koizumi III
89th Japanese cabinet dai-89-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Jun'ichirō Koizumi
choice	Shūgiin election 2005
Legislative period	163. Kokkai (44th Shūgiin , 20th Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	September 21, 2005
The End	October 31, 2005
Duration	0 years and 40 days
predecessor	Koizumi II cabinet (reshuffle)
successor	Koizumi III cabinet (reshuffle)
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	18th
State Secretaries	2 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 22 "Vice Ministers" 26 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	340/480 (at the premier election on September 21, 2005)
Sangiin	134/242 (at the premier election)
Opposition leader	Seiji Maehara (Shūgiin, DPJ )

The third cabinet Koizumi ( Japanese 第 3 次 小 造 内閣 , daisanji Koizumi naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi from September 21, 2005 until a cabinet reshuffle on October 31, 2005. Koizumi and the LDP had been before managed to get a two-thirds majority in the Shūgiin in the 2005 Shūgiin election , which enabled him to outvote the Sangiin if necessary . He had put up strong, loyal candidates, the "assassins", against the so-called "rebels" who had left the LDP because of differences of opinion on planned reforms such as post-privatization and had founded the New People's Party  .

Minister of State

3. Koizumi Cabinet - September 21, 2005 until October 31, 2005, when cabinet reshuffle

Office	Surname	image	Political party	Faction
prime minister	Jun'ichirō Koizumi		LDP	( Mori )
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication responsible for popular sports	Tarō Asō		LDP	Kono
Minister of Justice acc. for educating the young and combating the decline in the birth rate	Chieko Nōno		LDP	Mori
Foreign minister	Nobutaka Machimura		LDP	Mori
Finance minister	Sadakazu Tanigaki		LDP	Tanigaki
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Nariaki Nakayama		LDP	Mori
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Hidehisa Otsuji		LDP	Tsushima
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Mineichi Iwanaga		LDP	Horiuchi
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry acc. for the world exhibition	Shōichi Nakagawa		LDP	Kamei
Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport acc. for the transfer of capital city functions and tourism	Kazuo Kitagawa		Kōmeitō	-
Secretary of the Environment Secretary of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs acc. for global environmental issues	Yuriko Koike		LDP	Mori
Chief Cabinet Secretary State Minister for Gender Equality	Hiroyuki Hosoda		LDP	Mori
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission, Minister of State for Civil Protection acc. for emergency legislation	Yoshitaka Murata		LDP	Horiuchi
Head of Defense	Yoshinori Ōno		LDP	Yamasaki
Minister of State for the Financial Sector	Tatsuya Ito		LDP	Tsushima
Minister of State for Economic and Tax Policy acc. for post-privatization	Heizō Takenaka		LDP	-
Minister of State for Deregulation, Industrial Revitalization acc. for administrative reform, structural reform in special areas	Seiichirō Murakami		LDP	Kōmura
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Food Safety and Nutrition Education acc. for communication technology (IT)	Yasufumi Tanahashi		LDP	Tsushima

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

swell

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shūgiin: Minutes of Sessions 163. Kokkai, No. 1 September 21, appointment of a prime minister