Takeo Fukuda's cabinet

The Fukuda cabinet ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo from December 24, 1976 until a cabinet reshuffle on November 28, 1977. Fukuda was elected Prime Minister on December 24, 1976 by the Shūgiin , the lower house, with 256 votes ; his cabinet was presented on the same day and formally appointed by the Tennō. On December 23, 1976, he won the election for party chairman unopposed, replacing Miki Takeo , who had resigned after the 1976 Shūgiin election .

The cabinet consisted of 19 members of the Shūgiin, the lower house, and two members of the Sangiin, the upper house, including the prime minister. Simultaneously with the beginning of the term of office of the ministers of state, the deputy cabinet secretaries ( Shiokawa Masajūrō , Dōshō Kunihiko ), the deputy heads of the Sōri-fu ( Murata Keijirō , Akiyama Susumu ), the office of the prime minister, and the head of the legislative office of the cabinet ( Sanada Hideo) took place ) take up their positions.

**Fukuda Takeo's cabinet** - from December 24, 1976 until the cabinet reshuffle on November 28, 1977
Office	Surname	chamber	fraction	Faction
prime minister	Fukuda Takeo	Shūgiin	LDP	( Fukuda )
Minister of Justice	Fukuda Hajime until October 4, 1977 Setoyama Mitsuo from October 5, 1977	Shūgiin Shūgiin	LDP LDP	Funada Fukuda
Foreign minister	Hatoyama Iichirō	Sangiin	LDP	-
Finance minister	Bō Hideo	Shūgiin	LDP	Fukuda
Minister of Education	Kaifu Toshiki	Shūgiin	LDP	Miki
Minister of Health and Social Affairs	Watanabe Michio	Shūgiin	LDP	Nakasone
Minister for Agriculture and Forests	Suzuki Zenko	Shūgiin	LDP	Ōhira
Minister for International Trade and Industry	Tanaka Tatsuo	Shūgiin	LDP	Fukuda
Minister of transport	Tamura Hajime	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Post Minister	Komiyama Jushiro	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Minister of Labor	Ishida Hirohide	Shūgiin	LDP	Miki
Building minister	Hasegawa Shirō	Shūgiin	LDP	Shiina
Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Public Security Commission, Head of the Hokkaidō Development Authority	Ogawa Heiji	Shūgiin	LDP	Ōhira
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Sonoda Sunao	Shūgiin	LDP	Fukuda
Head of the Prime Minister's Office Head of the Okinawan Development Agency	Fujita Masaaki	Sangiin	LDP	Ōhira
Head of the Administrative Oversight Authority	Nishimura Eiichi	Shūgiin	LDP	Tanaka
Head of Defense	Mihara Asao	Shūgiin	LDP	Mizuta
Head of the Economic Planning Office	Kuranari Tadashi	Shūgiin	LDP	Nakasone
Head of Science and Technology Authority	Uno Sōsuke	Shūgiin	LDP	Nakasone
Head of the Environment Agency	Ishihara Shintaro	Shūgiin	LDP	-
Head of State Land Authority	Tazawa Kichirō	Shūgiin	LDP	Ōhira

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

resignation

Justice Minister Fukuda resigned on October 4, 1977 following the Dakka-jiken ("Dhaka Incident"), the hijacking of JAL Flight 472 by the Japanese Red Army , in which the government paid ransom and released prisoners to release the hostages .

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