Cabinet Shinzō Abe IV (1st transformation)

Cabinet Abe IV (1st transformation)
98th Japanese Cabinet (1st transformation) dai-98-dai naikaku (dai-1-ji-kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Shinzo Abe
Legislative period	197–199 NV (48th Abg.haus , 24th– 25th Senate )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	October 2, 2018
The End	September 11, 2019
Duration	0 years and 344 days
predecessor	Cabinet Shinzō Abe IV
successor	Cabinet Shinzō Abe IV (2nd transformation)
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	20 (1 resignation)
State Secretaries	5 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 26 "Vice Ministers" 28 "Parliamentary State Secretaries"
representation
House of Representatives	312/465 (September 25, 2018)
senate	150/242 (October 2, 2018)
Opposition leader	Yukio Edano (editor, KDP )

The fourth Abe cabinet ( Japanese 第 4 次 安 倍 第 1 次 改造 内閣 , daiyoji Abe daiichiji kaizō naikaku ), which was reorganized for the first time, ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from October 2, 2018 until another reorganization on September 11, 2019 Abe had previously  been able to prevail clearly against his challenger Shigeru Ishiba in the election of the LDP chairman . The coalition cabinet of the Liberal Democratic Party and Kōmeitō consisted exclusively of members from the national parliament: 17 from the House of Representatives , three from the Senate . There was a woman in the cabinet. Including Abe, six ministers from the previous cabinet kept their portfolios, including Deputy Prime Minister Asō, Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga and Foreign Minister Kōno. Twelve of the new cabinet members had never been ministers before, under Abe more than ever. There were also changes in the LDP board; Among other things, the previous executive council chairman Wataru Takeshita , who had voted for Ishiba in the election of the party chairman, was replaced by Katsunobu Kato .

Under this cabinet the change of emperor from Akihito to Naruhito and with it the beginning of the Reiwa period took place. It was the last cabinet of the Heisei period . Senate elections were held in July 2019 , in which the governing coalition was able to maintain its absolute majority with slight losses.

minister

Reorganized Abe IV cabinet from October 2, 2018 to September 11, 2019

Ministerial department	Further tasks	minister	image	Parliamentary mandate (chamber, constituency, parliamentary group)	Faction
premier	-	Shinzo Abe		Ed., Yamaguchi 4, LDP	( Hosoda )
Finances Special tasks (financial sector)	"Overcoming Deflation" (defure dakkyaku) 1st representative of the Prime Minister ( Deputy Prime Minister )	Tarō Asō		Ed., Fukuoka 8, LDP	Asō
General matters Special tasks (My Number System)	-	Masatoshi Ishida		Ed., Wakayama 2, LDP	-
Judiciary	-	Takashi Yamashita		Ed., Okayama 2, LDP	Ishiba
Foreign Affairs	4. Representative of the Prime Minister	Tarō Kono		Ed., Kanagawa 15, LDP	Asō
Cult and Science	"Educational renewal " (kyōiku saisei)	Masahiko Shibayama		Ed., Saitama 8, LDP	Hosoda
Social and work	"Reform of Working Methods " (hatarakikata kaikaku) [Government initiative to limit extremely long working hours] 5. Representative of the Prime Minister	Takumi Nemoto		Ed., Fukushima 2, LDP	Kishida
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	-	Takamori Yoshikawa		Ed., Hokkaidō 2, LDP	Nikai
Economy and industry Special tasks (organization for nuclear power compensation & reactor decommissioning)	"Competitiveness of the industry" (sangyō kyōsōryoku) "Economic cooperation with Russia" (Roshia keizai bun'ya kyōryoku) "Economic damage from nuclear power" (genshiryoku keizai higai)	Hiroshige Seko		Sen. (Class of 2013), Wakayama, LDP	Hosoda
Land and Transport	"Measures for the water cycle" (mizujunkan seisaku)	Keiichi Ishii		Abg., Relative North Kantō, Kōmeitō	-
Environment special tasks (nuclear power disaster control)	-	Yoshiaki Harada		Ed., Fukuoka 8, LDP	Asō
defense	-	Takeshi Iwaya		Abg., Ōita 3	Asō
Chief Cabinet Secretary	" Lightening the burden of the bases in Okinawa " (Okinawa kichi futan keigen) "Kidnapping problem " (rachi mondai) [see DPRK kidnapping of Japanese citizens ] 2. Representative of the Prime Minister	Yoshihide Suga		Ed., Kanagawa 2, LDP	-
reconstruction	"Comprehensive recovery from the nuclear power accident in Fukushima " (Fukushima gempatsu jiko saisei sōkatsu)	Hiromichi Watanabe		Ed., Chiba 6, LDP	Takeshita
National Public Security Commission Special Tasks (Civil Protection)	"Strengthening the toughness of the land" (kokudo kyōjinka) [government program for disaster control infrastructure ]	Junzō Yamamoto		Sen. (Class of 2016), Ehime , LDP	Hosoda
Special Assignments (Okinawa & Northern Territories ; Consumers & Food Safety; Decline In Births; Maritime Affairs)	"Activation of all 100 million" (ichi-oku-sō-katsuyaku) [government program for economic and social stability in demographic change] "national public service" (kokka kōmuin seido) "administrative reform" (gyōsei kaikaku) "territorial conflicts " (ryōdo mondai)	Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi		Ed., Toyama 2, LDP	Kishida
Special tasks (regional regeneration; deregulation; gender equality)	"Activation of women" (josei katsuyaku) [see Abenomics or "Womenomics"] "of city, person, work" (machi, hito, shigoto sōsei)	Satsuki Katayama		Sen. (Class of 2016), National, LDP	Nikai
Special tasks (economic & fiscal policy)	“Economic Renewal ” (keizai saisei) “ Human Resources Development ” (hitozukuri kakumei) “Integrated Social Security & Tax Reform” (shakai hoshō ・ zei ittai kaikaku) 3. Representative of the Prime Minister	Toshimitsu Motegi		Ed., Tochigi 5, LDP	Nukaga
Special tasks ( Cool Japan Strategy; Promotion of Intellectual Property ; Science & Technology; Space)	IT politics (jōhō tsūshin gijutsu (ai-tī) seisaku)	Takuya Hirai		Ed., Kagawa 1, LDP	Kishida
Minister of State (without portfolio)	Olympic & Paralympic Games Tokyo (Tōkyō orimpikku kyōgi taikai ・ Tōkyō pararimpikku kyōgi taikai)	Yoshitaka Sakurada (until April 11, 2019)		Ed., Chiba 8, LDP	Nikai
		Shun'ichi Suzuki (from April 11, 2019)		Ed., Iwate 2, LDP	Asō

Resignations

• Ichirō Tsukada , Vice Minister in the Reconstruction Department, Cabinet Office and MLIT, resigned from all offices on April 5, 2019. In a campaign speech for the gubernatorial election in Fukuoka , he had claimed that he had ordered the construction of a bridge between the hometowns of Prime Minister Abe and Finance Minister Asō, Shimonoseki and Kitakyūshū , following indirect demands from the two ( 忖度 , sontaku ; see also Moritomo Gakuen ).

• Olympic Minister Sakurada announced his resignation on the evening of April 10, 2019. At an event held by the LDP lower house MP Hinako Takahashi from Iwate Prefecture, he claimed that Takahashi was more important than rebuilding after the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 . Sakurada had previously been criticized for a number of thoughtless statements.

Web links

• Shushō Kantei / Japanese Cabinet, reshaped fourth Abe Cabinet: Minister of State , Prime Minister's Advisor (Japanese), English translation , Chinese translation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deputy land minister quits after using graft buzzword sontaku to describe his decision to fund project for Abe. In: The Japan Times . April 5, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Abe sacks gaffe-prone Olympics minister Sakurada after 3/11 remarks and gives predecessor job back. In: The Japan Times . April 11, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .