Cabinet Nakasone III

The third cabinet, Nakasone, ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro from July 22, 1986 to November 6, 1987. From the election to the Shūgiin, the lower house, on July 6, 1986 and the simultaneous election to the Sangiin, the upper house , was Nakasone's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) emerged with an absolute majority of the seats and was no longer dependent on the ruling coalition with the New Liberal Club. On July 22, Nakasone was confirmed as prime minister in the Shūgiin with 304 votes and presented his cabinet on the same day.

Of the ministers of state, including the prime minister, were 18 deputies from the Shūgiin and three from the Sangiin. A minister from the previous cabinet, Chief Cabinet Secretary Gotōda , was taken over. Simultaneously with the beginning of the term of office of the ministers of state, the deputy cabinet secretaries ( Watanabe Hideo , Fujimori Shōichi ) and the head of the legislative office of the cabinet ( Mimura Osamu ) took up their offices.

In September 1986 Nakasone's term of office as chairman of the LDP was extended by one year by the LDP MPs from both chambers. On October 31, 1987, Takeshita Noboru was nominated by Nakasone to succeed him as party chairman, and the Nakasone cabinet resigned on November 6, 1987.

**3. Nakasone cabinet** - from July 22, 1986 to November 6, 1987
Office	Surname	chamber	fraction	Faction
prime minister	Nakasone Yasuhiro	Shūgiin	LDP	( Nakasone )
Minister of State, Deputy Prime Minister responsible for stimulating the private sector	Kanemaru Shin	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Minister of Justice	Endō Kaname	Sangiin	LDP	Tanaka
Foreign minister	Kuranari Tadashi	Shūgiin	LDP	Nakasone
Finance minister	Miyazawa Kiichi	Shūgiin	LDP	Suzuki
Minister of Education	Fujio Masayuki Shiokawa Masajūrō from September 9, 1986	Shūgiin Shūgiin	LDP LDP	Abe Abe
Minister of Health and Social Affairs responsible for the pension problem	Saitō Jūrō	Sangiin	LDP	Tanaka
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Katō Mutsuki	Shūgiin	LDP	Abe
Minister for International Trade and Industry	Tamura Hajime	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Minister of Transport responsible for the New International Airport	Hashimoto Ryūtaro	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Post Minister	Karasawa Shunjirō	Shūgiin	LDP	Nakasone
Minister of Labor	Hirai Takushi	Sangiin	LDP	Nakasone
Building minister	Amano Kōsei	Shūgiin	LDP	Nakasone
Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Public Security Commission	Hanashi Nobuyuki	Shūgiin	LDP	Suzuki
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Gotōda Masaharu	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Head of the Authority for Management and Coordination	Tamaki Kazuo † January 25, 1987 Gotōda Masaharu Yamashita Tokuo from January 26, 1987	Shūgiin Shūgiin Shūgiin	LDP LDP LDP	- Tanaka Kōmoto
Head of Okinawa's Development Authority. Head of Hokkaidō Development Authority. Head of State Land Authority	Watanuki Tamisuke	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Head of Defense	Kurihara Yūkō	Shūgiin	LDP	Suzuki
Head of the Economic Planning Office	Kondō Tetsuo	Shūgiin	LDP	Kōmoto
Head of Science and Technology Authority	Mitsubayashi Yatarō	Shūgiin	LDP	Abe
Head of the Environment Agency	Inamura Toshiyuki	Shūgiin	LDP	Kōmoto

Note: The party chairman and prime minister does not officially belong to any political group during his term of office.

resignation

Education Minister Fujio was sacked in September 1986 for controversial comments about Japan's role in World War II and colonial rule over Korea .

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Kantei , 昭和 40 年代から 60 年代の内閣閣僚名簿 : 3rd Nakasone cabinet