Koizumi II cabinet (reshuffle)

Koizumi II cabinet (reshuffle)
88th Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-88-dai naikaku (kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Jun'ichirō Koizumi
Legislative period	161-162. Kokkai (43rd Shūgiin , 20th Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	September 27, 2004
The End	September 21, 2005
Duration	0 years and 359 days
predecessor	Cabinet Koizumi II
successor	Cabinet Koizumi III
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	18 (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	283/479 (9/27/2004)
Sangiin	138/242 (10/11/2004)
Opposition leader	until 17.9 .: Katsuya Okada (Shūgiin, DPJ ) from 17.9 .: Seiji Maehara (Shūgiin, DPJ)

The reorganized second cabinet Koizumi ( Japanese 第 2 次 小泉 改造 内閣 , dainiji Koizumi kaizō naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi from September 27, 2004 until the appointment of the successor cabinet on September 21, 2005. Koizumi dissolved the Shūgiin on August 8 and was able to expand his majority in the following Shūgiin election .

Minister of State

2. Koizumi Cabinet after reshuffle - September 27, 2004 to September 21, 2005

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	Hashimoto
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Yoshinobu Shimamaura until August 8, 2005		LDP	Kamei
	Jun'ichirō Koizumi provisionally		LDP	Mori
	Mineichi Iwanaga from August 11, 2005		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	Hashimoto
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.

resignation

• Agriculture Minister Shimamura was one of the opponents of post-privatization, the so-called "LDP rebels", and resigned because of Koizumi's decision to hold early elections .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ shugiin.go.jp - Membership numbers of the political groups ( Memento of October 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ sangiin.go.jp - Membership numbers of the political groups ( Memento of October 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Japanese PM Calls Snap Election. In: BBC News. August 8, 2005, accessed March 1, 2008 .