Yamamoto I cabinet

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The first Yamamoto cabinet ( Japanese 第 1 次 山 本 内閣 , dai-ichi-ji Yamamoto naikaku ) ruled Japan from 1913 to 1914. The previous cabinet , Katsura, was in February 1913 in the face of mass demonstrations by the (first) "Movement to Protect the Constitution" ( goken undō ) and a lack of support in the lower house of the Reichstag . Admiral Count Yamamoto Gonnohyōe was appointed successor as Prime Minister on February 20, 1913 . Yamamoto belonged to the Satsuma clique and relied on the [Rikken] Seiyūkai ("[Constitutional] Association of Political Friends") in the lower house . The leading Seiyūkai politician Hara Takashi received the Ministry of the Interior . Other civil ministers were Justice Minister Matsuda and Communications Minister Motoda.

In March 1914, the cabinet announced its resignation over the Siemens scandal over competing bribes from Siemens and Vickers for the contract to build the battle cruiser Kongo . The Genrō Ōkuma Shigenobu nominated his successor as Prime Minister , who, in contrast to Yamamoto, was able to rely on the army, the [Rikken] Dōshikai ("[Constitutional] Association of like-minded people") in the lower house and the anti-party mansion majority around Yamagata Aritomo . In this way, Yamagata and Inoue Kaoru tried to prevent the supremacy of an alliance between the Satsuma clique and the Navy and the Seiyūkai majority in the bourgeois lower house. Ōkuma and his second cabinet were appointed on April 16, 1914.

Yamamoto I cabinet from February 20, 1913 to April 16, 1914
Office Surname Chamber of Parliament (constituency / method) Party / group
prime minister Admiral Count Yamamoto Gonnohyōe - Satsuma clique / Navy
Foreign minister Baron Makino Nobuaki - Satsuma clique / ministerial bureaucracy
Interior minister Hara Takashi Shūgiin (Iwate, Morioka City) Seiyūkai
Finance minister Baron Takahashi Korekiyo Kizokuin → Seiyūkai
Army Minister Major General Baron Kigoshi Yasutsuna until June 24, 1913 - army
Lieutenant General Kusunose Yukihiko from June 24, 1913 - army
Naval Minister Admiral Baron Saitō Makoto - Satsuma clique / Navy
Minister of Justice Matsuda Masahisa until November 11, 1913 Shūgiin (Saga Land) Seiyūkai
Okuda Yoshito (or Okuda Gijin) from November 11, 1913 Kizokuin Seiyūkai / ministerial bureaucracy
Minister of Education Okuda Yoshito / Gijin until March 6, 1914 Kizokuin Seiyūkai / ministerial bureaucracy
Ōoka Ikuzō from March 6, 1914 Shūgiin (Yamaguchi Land) Seiyūkai
Minister for Agriculture and Trade Yamamoto Tatsuo Kizokuin Seiyūkai-nah
Communications minister Motoda Hajime Shūgiin (Ōita) Seiyūkai
Head of the Cabinet Secretariat Yamanouchi Kazuji Kizokuin (from 1914)
Head of the Legislative Office Okano Keijirō until September 20, 1913
Kuratomi Yūzaburō from September 20, 1913

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taichiro Mitani: The establishment of party cabinets, 1889-1932. in Peter Duus (Ed.): The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6: The Twentieth Century. , Cambridge University Press 1988, p. 81 f.
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Yamamoto is the family name, Gonnohyōe the first name.