Cabinet Mori II

Cabinet Mori II
86th Japanese Cabinet dai-86-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Yoshirō Mori
choice	Shūgiin election 2000
Legislative period	148-150. Kokkai (42nd Shūgiin , 18th  Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	4th July 2000
The End	December 5, 2000
Duration	0 years and 154 days
predecessor	Cabinet Mori I
successor	Cabinet Mori II (reshuffle)
composition
Party (s)	LDP , Kōmeitō , KP
minister	18 (2 resignations)
State Secretaries	1 Special Advisor to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 32 "Parliamentary Vice-Ministers"
representation
Shūgiin	284/480 (at Premier choice 4.7.2000)
Sangiin	133/252 (at the premier election)
Opposition leader	Yukio Hatoyama (Shūgiin, DPJ )

The second cabinet Mori ( Japanese 第 2 次 森 内閣 , dainiji Mori naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori from July 4, 2000 until a cabinet reshuffle on December 5, 2000. The LDP had significant losses in the 2000 Shūgiin election suffered, but was able to continue to govern with the coalition partners Kōmeitō and Conservative Party . Mori, who was relatively unpopular as prime minister according to surveys and also within the LDP, was able to take up his position in a vote of no confidence in the Shūgiin initiated by the Kōchikai chairman Kōichi Katō on November 20 due to the efforts of the LDP general secretary Nonaka Hiromu to prevent a change of government, just defend.

Minister of State

2. Mori Cabinet - from July 4, 2000 until the cabinet reshuffle on December 5, 2000

Office	Surname	image	Political party	Faction
prime minister	Yoshirō Mori		LDP	( Mori )
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Education Reform (not a Minister of State)	Hirofumi Nakasone		LDP	Kamei
Minister of Justice	Okiharu Yasuoka		LDP	Yamasaki
Foreign minister	Yōhei Kono		LDP	Kono
Finance minister	Kiichi Miyazawa		LDP	Kato
Minister of Education Head of Science and Technology Authority	Tadamori Ōshima		LDP	Kōmura
Minister of Health and Social Affairs    responsible for the pension problem	Yūji Tsushima		LDP	Hashimoto
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Yōichi Tani		LDP	Kamei
Minister for International Trade and Industry in    charge of the World's Fair	Takeo Hiranuma		LDP	Kamei
Minister of Transport Head of the Hokkaidō Development Authority    responsible for the New Tokyo International Airport	Hajime Morita		LDP	Kato
Post Minister	Kōzō Hirabayashi		LDP	-
Minister of Labor	Yoshio Yoshikawa		LDP	Kato
Minister of Construction Head of the State Land    Authority responsible for delegating capital city functions	Chikage Ōgi		Conservative Party	-
Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Public Security Commission	Mamoru Nishida		LDP	Hashimoto
Chief Cabinet Secretary Head of Okinawa Development Agency in    charge of Gender Equality, Okinawa, IT	Hidenao Nakagawa until October 27th		LDP	Mori
	Yasuo Fukuda from October 27th		LDP	Mori
Chairman of the Commission for Financial Reform	Kimitaka Kuze until July 30th		LDP	Kato
	Hideyuki Aizawa from July 30th		LDP	Kono
Head of the Agency for Management and Coordination    responsible for the restructuring of the central government	Kunihiro Tsuzuki		Kōmeitō	-
Head of Defense	Kazuo Torashima		LDP	Mori
Head of the Economic Planning    Office responsible for general transport    policy responsible for the Internet Fair Japan	Taichi Sakaiya		-	-
Head of the environmental    agency responsible for global environmental issues	Yoriko Kawaguchi		-	-

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

Resignations

• The chairman of the Commission for the Reform of the Financial System, Kimitaka Kuze, resigned due to a donation scandal.
• Chief Cabinet Secretary Nakagawa resigned over alleged links to Yakuza- affiliated ultra-nationalist organizations and the dissemination of confidential information through an extramarital affair.

Web links

• Kantei: Members of the Second Mori Cabinet (Japanese cabinet, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ shugiin.go.jp - Activities of the Shūgiin 2000 No. 8, 148. Kokkai (extraordinary) , accessed June 9, 2018.
2. ^ Chief Financial Regulator Quits In New Scandal Over Payments . ( Memento from December 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) chicagotribune.com
3. ↑ Nakagawa resigns; Fukuda steps in . ( Memento from December 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) japantimes.co.jp