Yamagata I cabinet

Schröder II cabinet
3. Japanese daisan-dai naikaku cabinet
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Yamagata Aritomo
choice	1. Election to the House of Representatives, 1. Nobility and 1. Top taxpayer elections for the manor house
Legislative period	pre-constitutional: advisory, appointed "quasi / proto-parliament" from senate ( genrōin ) & governor's assembly ( chihōkan kaigi ) from November 1890: 1st Reichstag (1st manor , 1st house of representatives )
Appointed by	Meiji - Tennō
education	December 24, 1889
The End	May 6, 1891
Duration	1 year and 133 days
predecessor	Kuroda / Sanjō cabinet
successor	Matsukata I cabinet
composition
Party (s)	[intended:] “transcendentes” ( chōzen , 超然 , means: super / non / anti-partisan) cabinet more realistic / practical: Chōshū clique and other oligarchs, army , officials, Taiseikai , parts of the liberal parties willing to compromise
minister	11
representation
Mansion	251/251 (still rather impartial)
House of Representatives	84/300 (Election result of the parties supported by the government in 1890)
Opposition leader	Itagaki Taisuke (Adel, Tosa , not member of the Reichstag; Const.-Liberal Party ) Ōkuma Shigenobu (Aristocracy, Saga , not member of the Reichstag; Const. Progressive Party )

The first Yamagata cabinet ( Japanese 第 1 次 山 縣 内閣 , daiichiji Yamagata naikaku ) ruled Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Lieutenant General Count Yamagata Aritomo from December 24, 1889 to May 6, 1891.

After the resignation of Lieutenant General Kuroda Kiyotaka and the interim government of Prince Sanjō Sanetomi , the Meiji oligarchy agreed on Interior Minister Yamagata as his successor, an outspoken opponent of political parties that formed in preparation for the Meiji constitution and the establishment of the Reichstag . Like its predecessor, Yamagata's cabinet was a han-batsu naikaku ( 藩 閥 内閣 ; dt. About "Klansabinett"), which was mainly recruited from the four former southern Japanese fiefs ( han ) who had carried out the Meiji Restoration: Yamagata's home Chōshū , Kuroda's homeland of Satsuma , Tosa and Hizen .

The Meiji Constitution came into force in November 1890, and the bourgeois parties had won a majority in the first general election and called for tax cuts and spending cuts. Yamagata did not want to work with the political parties, but could not expect a new majority in new elections after the dissolution of the lower house; After several weeks of negotiations, a compromise was reached for the 1891 budget. Yamagata resigned in early May. On his recommendation, Finance Minister Matsukata was appointed as his successor.

With Mutsu Munemitsu, who won a seat in the first constituency of Wakayama Prefecture in the 1890 election, an elected member of parliament was the first to belong to a cabinet.

Minister of State

Yamagata I cabinet from December 24, 1889 to May 6, 1891

Office	Surname	Nobility rank military. rank	origin
prime minister	Yamagata Aritomo	hakushaku (count) rikugun-chusho (lieutenant general of the army )	Choshu
Foreign minister	Aoki Shūzō	shishaku (vice count)	Choshu
Interior minister	Yamagata Aritomo (until May 17, 1890)	hakushaku (count) rikugun-chusho (lieutenant general of the army)	Choshu
	Saigō Jūdō (from May 17, 1890)	hakushaku (count) rikugun-chusho (lieutenant general of the army)	satsuma
Finance minister	Matsukata Masayoshi	hakushaku (count)	satsuma
Army Minister	Ōyama Iwao	hakushaku (count) rikugun-chusho (lieutenant general of the army)	satsuma
Naval Minister	Saigō Jūdō (until May 17, 1890)	hakushaku (count) rikugun-chusho (lieutenant general of the army)	satsuma
	Kabayama Sukenori (from May 17, 1890)	shishaku (vice count ) kaigun-chusho (vice admiral of the Navy )	satsuma
Minister of Justice	Yamada Akiyoshi	hakushaku (count) rikugun-chusho (lieutenant general of the army)	Choshu
Minister of Education	Enomoto Takeaki (until May 17, 1890)	shishaku (vice count ) kaigun-chusho (vice admiral of the Navy)	( bakushin / ex-Tokugawa supporter)
	Yoshikawa Akimasa (from May 17, 1890)		Tokushima
Minister for Agriculture and Trade	Iwamura Michitoshi (until May 17, 1890)	-	Tosa
	Mutsu Munemitsu (from May 17, 1890)	-	Kishu
Communications minister	Gotō Shōjirō	hakushaku (count)	Tosa
Hanretsu (Minister without Portfolio)	Ōki Takatō	hakushaku (count)	Heating

Further positions

Office	Surname	Nobility rank military. rank	origin
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Komaki Masanari (until December 26, 1889)		satsuma
	Sufu Kōhei (from December 26, 1889)	danshaku (baron)	Choshu
Head of the Legislative Office	Inoue Kowashi		Higo

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yamagata is the family name, Aritomo the first name.

Web links

• Kantei , Japanese cabinet: Cabinet Yamagata I (Japanese)