Murayama's cabinet

Murayama's cabinet
81st Japanese Cabinet dai-81-dai naikaku
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Tomiichi Murayama
Legislative period	130-133. Kokkai (40th Shūgiin , 16th – 17th Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	June 30, 1994
The End	August 8, 1995
Duration	1 year and 39 days
predecessor	Hata cabinet
successor	Murayama Cabinet (reshuffle)
composition
Party (s)	LDP - SPJ - NPS coalition government ji-sha-sa renritsu seiken
minister	21 (1 resignation, 1 change)
State Secretaries	3 parliamentary deputy chiefs of the cabinet secretariat 23 "parliamentary deputy ministers"
representation
Shūgiin	261/500 (at the premier election on June 29, 1994)
Sangiin	163/252 (9/30/1994)
Opposition leader	until 10.12 .: Tsutomu Hata (Shūgiin, JRP ) from December 10th: Toshiki Kaifu (Shūgiin, NFP )

The Murayama Cabinet ( Japanese 村 山 内閣 , Murayama naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama from June 30, 1994 until a cabinet reshuffle on August 8, 1995 . The coalition cabinet of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Socialist Party (SPJ) and New Sakigake Party (NPS) was the first Japanese government under the leadership of a socialist prime minister since 1948, although the LDP held a relative majority of the seats in the National Assembly . The latter had lost its absolute majority in the 1993 Shūgiin election and was in the opposition under the anti-LDP coalition cabinets Hosokawa and Hata . After the governing parties SPJ and NPS announced their withdrawal from the Hosokawa coalition in April 1994, Tsutomu Hata ruled with the remaining parties as a minority government . Under these circumstances, the LDP, SPJ and NPS agreed to form a new cabinet under socialist leadership so that the LDP could return to government and Murayama was elected Prime Minister in June 1994. This government was particularly criticized for its crisis management as a result of the Kobe earthquake in January 1995 ; in the Sangiin election in July of that year , the SPJ suffered heavy losses.

Minister of State

Murayama Cabinet - June 30, 1994 until August 8, 1995, when cabinet reshuffle

Office	Surname	image	Political party	Faction
prime minister	Tomiichi Murayama		SPJ	( Seikōken )
Minister of Justice	Isao Maeda		LDP	Obuchi
Foreign Minister Deputy Prime Minister	Yōhei Kono		LDP	( Miyazawa )
Finance minister	Masayoshi Takemura		NPS	-
Minister of Education	Kaoru Yosano		LDP	Watanabe
Minister of Health and Social Affairs	Shōichi ide		NPS	-
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Taichirō Ōgawara		LDP	Watanabe
Minister for International Trade and Industry	Ryūtaro Hashimoto		LDP	Obuchi
Minister of transport	Shizuka Kamei		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Post Minister	Ōide Shun		SPJ
Minister of Labor	Manzo Hamamoto		SPJ
Building minister	Nosaka Kōken		SPJ	Shinsei Kenkyūjo
Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Public Security Commission	Hiromu Nonaka		LDP	Obuchi
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Kōzō Igarashi		SPJ
Head of the Authority for Management and Coordination	Tsuruo Yamaguchi		SPJ	Seikōken
Head of Defense	Tokuichirō Tamazawa		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Head of the Economic Planning Office	Masahiko Kōmura		LDP	Kōmoto
Head of Science and Technology Authority	Makiko Tanaka		LDP	-
Head of the Environment Agency	Shin Sakurai until August 14, 1994		LDP	Mitsuzaka
	Sōhei Miyashita from August 14, 1994		LDP	Mitsuzuka
Head of State Land Authority	Kiyoshi Ozawa		LDP	Miyazawa
Head of the Hokkaidō Development Agency Head of the Okinawa Development Agency	Sadatoshi Ozato until January 20, 1995		LDP	Miyazawa
	Kiyoshi Ozawa from January 20, 1995		LDP	Miyazawa
Minister of State for Civil Protection	Sadatoshi Ozato from January 20, 1995		LDP	Miyazawa

Note: Prime ministers and party leaders do not officially belong to any political group during their term of office.

Resignation / change

• The head of the environmental agency Sakurai resigned on August 14, 1994 after euphemisms about Japan's role in World War II .
• The head of the agency for the development of Hokkaidōs and Okinawa Ozato was appointed minister of state for civil protection shortly after the Kobe earthquake . Kiyoshi Ozawa took over his previous post.

Web links

• Kantei : 村 山 内閣 (list of cabinet members)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Protocol No. 1 of the 129th Kokkai. kokkai.ndl.go.jp
2. ↑ List of the membership numbers of the political groups after the meeting. sangiin.go.jp