Shinzō Abe II cabinet (reshuffle)
Cabinet Abe II (reshuffle) | |
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96th Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-96-dai naikaku (kaizō) |
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Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin |
Shinzo Abe |
Legislative period | 187-188. NV (46th Abg . House , 23rd Senate ) |
Appointed by | Emperor Akihito |
education | 3rd September 2014 |
The End | December 24, 2014 |
Duration | 0 years and 112 days |
predecessor | Cabinet Shinzō Abe II |
successor | Cabinet Shinzō Abe III |
composition | |
Party (s) | LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken |
minister | 19 (2 resignations) |
State Secretaries | 5 special advisers to the prime minister 3 parliamentary deputy chiefs of the cabinet secretariat 25 "vice ministers" 27 "parliamentary state secretaries" |
representation | |
House of Representatives | 325/480 (14.10.2014) |
senate | 134/242 (14.10.2014) |
Opposition leader | Banri Kaieda (Ex., DPJ ) |
The reshaped second Abe cabinet ( Japanese 第 2 次 安 倍 改造 内閣 , dainiji Abe kaizō naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from a cabinet reshuffle on September 3, 2014, in which all members of the except for the prime minister and six ministers took over The previous cabinet was replaced and some positions were redesigned until December 24, 2014. At the same time as the cabinet reshuffle, the party executive of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was newly appointed.
After a historically long period without a change of minister (617 days) and stable - in comparison with the previous cabinets since 2006 - with relatively high approval ratings, Abe carried out a comprehensive restructuring of the cabinet and party leadership in September 2014. Eight ministers belonged to a cabinet for the first time, and initially a total of five women, as many as in the first Koizumi cabinet in 2001. All ministers were members of the national parliament, initially two members of the Council House ( Sangiin ), all others in the House of Representatives ( Shūgiin ).
In November 2014, the Abe cabinet dissolved the House of Representatives, after the House of Representatives election on December 14, 2014 , the cabinet resigned before the election of a new prime minister on December 24, 2014 and was replaced on the same day by the third Abe cabinet , with the exception of of the Defense Minister is identical in terms of personnel to the outgoing cabinet.
Minister of State
Office | Surname | image | Chamber of Parliament | fraction | Faction |
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prime minister | Shinzo Abe | Output | LDP | - ( Machimura ) | |
First Minister-designate under Article 9 of the Cabinet Law (Deputy Prime Minister) Minister of Finance Minister for Special Tasks ( Financial Sector ) responsible for overcoming deflation (defure dakkyaku taisaku) |
Tarō Asō | Output | LDP | Asō | |
Minister for General Affairs | Sanae Takaichi | Output | LDP | - | |
Minister of Justice |
Midori Matsushima (until October 20, 2014) |
Output | LDP | Machimura | |
Eriko Yamatani (acting) |
Councils. | LDP | Machimura | ||
Yōko Kamikawa (from October 21, 2014) |
Output | LDP | Kishida | ||
Foreign minister | Fumio Kishida | Output | LDP | Kishida | |
Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology responsible for the "revitalization of education" (kyōiku saisei), the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo (Tōkyō Orimpikku ・ Pararimpikku) |
Hakubun Shimomura | Output | LDP | Machimura | |
Minister for Health and Social Affairs | Yasuhisa Shiozaki | Output | LDP | - | |
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries | Kōya Nishikawa | Output | LDP | Nikai | |
Minister for Economy and Industry Minister for special tasks (“Support organization for nuclear power compensation , the decommissioning of reactors etc.” (genshiryoku songai baishō ・ hairo tō shien kikō) ) responsible for “economic damage caused by nuclear power” (genshiryoku keizai higai), the "competitiveness of industry" (sangyō kyōsōryoku) |
Yūko Obuchi (until October 20, 2014) |
Output | LDP | Nukaga | |
Sanae Takaichi (acting) |
Output | LDP | - | ||
Yōichi Miyazawa (from October 21, 2014) |
Councils. | LDP | Kishida | ||
Minister for Land and Transport | Akihiro Ōta | Output | Kōmeitō | - | |
Environment Minister Minister for Special Tasks ("Nuclear Disaster Protection " (genshiryoku bōsai) ) |
Yoshio Mochizuki | Output | LDP | Kishida | |
Minister of Defense responsible for "security legislation" (anzen hoshō hōsei) |
Akinori Eto | Output | LDP | Ōshima | |
Head of the Cabinet Secretariat responsible for "reducing the load on bases in Okinawa " (Okinawa kichi futan keigen) |
Yoshihide Suga | Output | LDP | - | |
Reconstruction minister responsible for recovery from the nuclear power accident in Fukushima (Fukushima gempatsu jiko saisei sōkatsu tantō) |
Wataru Takeshita | Output | LDP | Nukaga | |
Chairwoman of the National Public Security Commission Minister for Special Tasks (Disaster Management (bōsai) ) responsible for the "kidnapping issue " (rachi mondai), "maritime policy and territorial issues" (kaiyō seisaku ・ ryōdo mondai), "strengthening the resilience of the country" ( kokudo kyōjinka) |
Eriko Yamatani | Councils. | LDP | Machimura | |
Minister for Special Tasks ("Affairs of Okinawa and the Northern Territories " (Okinawa oyobi hoppō taisaku) , science and technology policy (kagaku gijutsu seisaku) , space policy (uchū seisaku) ) responsible for IT policy (jōhō tsūshin gijutsu (IT) seisaku ), sai-charenji, the Cool Japan strategy (kūru Japan senryaku) |
Shun'ichi Yamaguchi | Output | LDP | Asō | |
Minister for Special Tasks (consumer and food safety (shōhisha oyobi shokuhin anzen) , regulatory reform (kisei kaikaku) , measures to reduce the birth rate (shōshika taisaku) , gender equality (danjo kyōdō sankaku) ) responsible for the “activation of women” (josei katsuyaku), administrative reform (gyōsei kaikaku), the national civil service (kokka kōmuin seido) |
Haruko Arimura | Councils. | LDP | Ōshima | |
Minister for Special Tasks (Economic and Fiscal Policy (keizai zaisei seisaku) ) responsible for "stimulating the economy" (keizai saisei), the "integrated reform of social security and taxes" (shakaihoshō ・ zei ittai kaikaku) |
Akira Amari | Output | LDP | - | |
Minister for special tasks ("national strategic special zones" (kokka senryaku tokubetsu kuiki) ) responsible for "regional regeneration" (chihō sōsei) |
Shigeru Ishiba | Output | LDP | - |
Other positions
State secretaries ( fukudaijin and daijin seimukan ) from September 4, the others, many of them from the previous cabinet, from September 3.
Office | Surname | chamber | fraction | Faction |
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Cabinet Secretariat, Legislative Office | ||||
Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat | Katsunobu Kato | Output | LDP | Nukaga |
Hiroshige Seko | Councils. | LDP | Machimura | |
Kazuhiro Sugita | - | - | - | |
Head of the Legislative Office of the Cabinet | Yūsuke Yokobatake | - | - | - |
naikaku sōri-daijin hosakan ("advisor to the prime minister") | ||||
for "home" (furusato) | Tarō Kimura | Output | LDP | Machimura |
for "the national security council and the electoral system" (kokka anzen hoshō kaigi oyobi sichyo seido) | Yōsuke Isozaki | Councils. | LDP | Machimura |
for "important tasks of national politics" (kokusei no jūyō kadai) | Seiichi Eto | Councils. | LDP | Nikai |
for "growth strategy for health care, regional revitalization , preservation of social capital to strengthen the resilience of the country and for reconstruction, etc." (kokudo kyōjinka oyobi fukkō nado no shakai shihon seibi, chihō sōsei narabi ni kenkō, iryō ni kan suru seichō senryaku) |
Hiroto Izumi | - | - | - |
for "political planning" (seisaku kikaku) (also naikaku kōhōkan , PR officer of the cabinet, in the cabinet secretariat) |
Eiichi Hasegawa | - | - | - |
Fukudaijin ("Vice Minister") | ||||
reconstruction | Tadayoshi Nagashima | Output | LDP | Nikai |
Masayoshi Hamada | Councils. | Kōmeitō | - | |
Cabinet Office | Ryōsei Akazawa | Output | LDP | - |
Masaaki Taira | Output | LDP | - | |
Yasutoshi Nishimura | Output | LDP | Machimura | |
General affairs | Satoshi Ninoyu | Councils. | LDP | Nukaga / Tanigaki |
Kosaburo Nishime | Output | LDP | Nukaga | |
Justice Cabinet Office |
Yasuhiro Hanashi | Output | LDP | Kishida |
Foreign Affairs | Minoru Kiuchi | Output | LDP | - |
Yasuhide Nakayama | Output | LDP | Machimura | |
Finances | Nobuhide Minorikawa | Output | LDP | - |
Ichirō Miyashita | Output | LDP | Machimura | |
Cult and Science | Hideki Niwa | Output | LDP | Ōshima |
Motoyuki Fujii | Councils. | LDP | Kishida | |
Health and work | Keiko Nagaoka | Output | LDP | Asō |
Kanae Yamamoto | Councils. | Kōmeitō | - | |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Toshiko Abe | Output | LDP | Tanigaki |
Akio Koizumi | Councils. | LDP | - | |
Economy and industry | Daishirō Yamagiwa | Output | LDP | - |
Economy and Industry Cabinet Office |
Yōsuke Takagi | Output | Kōmeitō | - |
Land and Transport | Issei Kitagawa | Councils. | LDP | Machimura |
Land and transport reconstruction |
Akihiro Nishimura | Output | LDP | Machimura |
environment | Shigeo Kitamura | Output | LDP | Machimura |
Environment Cabinet Office |
Yasuhiro Ozato | Output | LDP | Tanigaki |
defense | Akira Sato | Output | LDP | Kishida |
Daijinseimukan (Parliamentary State Secretaries) | ||||
Cabinet Office | Takao Ochi | Output | LDP | Machimura |
Yōhei Matsumoto | Output | LDP | Nikai | |
Cabinet Office Reconstruction |
Shinjirō Koizumi | Output | LDP | - |
General affairs | Yōji Mutō | Output | LDP | Asō |
Jirō Akama | Output | LDP | Asō | |
Gaku Hasegawa | Councils. | LDP | Machimura | |
Justice Cabinet Office (from September 12, 2014) |
Taku Ōtsuka | Output | LDP | Machimura |
Foreign Affairs | Kentaro Sonoura | Output | LDP | Asō |
Kazuyuki Nakane | Output | LDP | Machimura | |
Takashi Uto | Councils. | LDP | Nukaga | |
Financial | Satoshi Ōie | Councils. | LDP | Asō |
Toshiko Takeya | Councils. | Kōmeitō | - | |
Cult and Science | Masaaki Akaike | Councils. | LDP | Machimura |
Cult and Science Reconstruction |
Tomohiro Yamamoto | Output | LDP | |
Health and work | Gaku Hashimoto | Output | LDP | Nukaga |
Emiko Takagai | Councils. | LDP | Machimura | |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Hidemichi Sato | Output | Kōmeitō | - |
Yūko Nakagawa | Output | LDP | Nikai | |
Economy and industry | Yoshihiro Seki | Output | LDP | Machimura |
Economy, Industry Cabinet Office Reconstruction |
Shigeki Iwai | Councils. | LDP | Nukaga |
Land and Transport | Ken'ichirō Ueno | Output | LDP | Ishihara |
Takashi Ōtsuka | Output | LDP | Nukaga | |
Kazuhiko Aoki | Councils. | LDP | Nukaga | |
environment | Hinako Takahashi | Output | LDP | Ōshima |
Environment Cabinet Office |
Mamoru Fukuyama | Output | LDP | |
defense | Kenji Harada | Output | LDP | Nukaga |
Hirotaka Ishikawa | Councils. | Kōmeitō | - |
Resignations
- Economy Minister Obuchi resigned in October 2013 over a scandal involving improperly used political funds.
- Justice Minister Matsushima resigned in October 2013 on charges of violating campaign laws.
Web links
- Japanese cabinet , reshaped Abe second cabinet: Minister of State , fukudaijin ("Vice Minister") , daijinseimukan (parliamentary state secretary) , naikaku-sōridaijin hosakan (advisor to the Prime Minister) (Japanese, English , Chinese )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 第 2 次 安 倍 改造 内閣 の 顔 ぶ れ . In: Nihon Keizai Shimbun . September 3, 2014, Retrieved September 3, 2014 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b Japan ministers Yuko Obuchi and Midori Matsushima quit. In: BBC News. October 20, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014 .