Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet (reshuffle)

Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet (reshuffle)
91st Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-91-dai naikaku (kaizō)
Prime Minister Naikaku Sōri-Daijin	Yasuo Fukuda
Legislative period	170th Kokkai (44th Shūgiin , 21st Sangiin )
Appointed by	Emperor Akihito
education	August 2, 2008
The End	September 24, 2008
Duration	0 years and 53 days
predecessor	Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet
successor	Cabinet Asō
composition
Party (s)	LDP - Kōmeitō coalition government ji-kō renritsu seiken
minister	18 (1 resignation)
State Secretaries	2 Special Advisers to the Prime Minister 3 Parliamentary Vice-Heads of the Cabinet Secretariat 22 "Vice Ministers" 26 "Parliamentary Secretaries"
representation
Shūgiin	335/480 (19.9.2008)
Sangiin	104/241 (September 2, 2008)
Opposition leader	Ichirō Ozawa (Shūgiin, DPJ )

The reshuffled Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet ruled Japan from the August 2, 2008 cabinet reshuffle carried out by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda during the Kokkai's summer recess until his resignation on September 24, 2008.

The resignation of the previous cabinet and the introduction of the new ministers had already taken place on August 1, the formal appointment by the Tennō took place one day later. The cabinet included 13 deputies from the Shūgiin , three from the Sangiin, and a minister of state who was not a member. Four ministers of state from the old cabinet were retained in their posts. Five ministers belonged to a cabinet for the first time.

Shortly before the cabinet reshuffle, the LDP leadership positions were filled on August 1, 2008. Bunmei Ibuki and Toshihiro Nikai moved from the party leadership to the cabinet. The Kōmeitō received the Ministry of Environment instead of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Simultaneously with the term of office of the Minister of State, the term of office of the Prime Minister's Special Advisers , Deputy Cabinet Secretaries Ryu Shionoya , Mitsuhide Iwaki and Masahiro Futahashi, and the Head of the Cabinet Legislative Bureau , Reiichi Miyazaki, began .

Reshaped cabinet of Yasuo Fukuda - from August 2 to September 24, 2008, when he resigned

Office	Surname	image	Political party	chamber	Faction
prime minister	Yasuo Fukuda		LDP	Shūgiin	( Machimura )
Ministers of State who run a ministry
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication     responsible for regional reform and post-privatization	Hiroya Masuda		-	-	-
Minister of Justice	Okiharu Yasuoka		LDP	Shūgiin	Yamasaki
Foreign minister	Masahiko Kōmura		LDP	Shūgiin	Kōmura
Finance minister	Bunmei Ibuki		LDP	Shūgiin	Ibuki
Minister for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology	Tsuneo Suzuki		LDP	Shūgiin	Asō
Minister for Health, Labor and Social Affairs	Yōichi Masuzoe		LDP	Sangiin	-
Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries	Seiichi Ōta until September 19, 2008		LDP	Shūgiin	Koga
	Nobutaka Machimura provisionally		LDP	Shūgiin	Machimura
Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry	Toshihiro Nikai		LDP	Shūgiin	Nikai
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport    zust. for tourism and maritime affairs	Sadakazu Tanigaki		LDP	Shūgiin	Koga
Environment Minister    zust. for global environmental issues	Tetsuo Saitō		Kōmeitō	Shūgiin	-
Defense Minister	Yoshimasa Hayashi		LDP	Sangiin	Koga
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Nobutaka Machimura		LDP	Shūgiin	Machimura
Minister of State without a ministry
Chairman of the National Public Security Commission Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs , Civil Protection	Motoo Hayashi		LDP	Shūgiin	Yamasaki
Minister of State for the Financial     Sector for administrative reform, reform of the civil service	Toshimitsu Motegi		LDP	Shūgiin	Tsushima
Minister of State for Economic and Tax     Policy for deregulation	Kaoru Yosano		LDP	Shūgiin	-
Minister of State for Combating the Fall in Births,    Gender Equality and Kidnapping	Kyōko Nakayama		LDP	Sangiin	Machimura
Minister of State for Consumer Protection, Food Safety, Science & Technology	Seiko Noda		LDP	Shūgiin	-

Note: The Prime Minister does not officially belong to any political group during his term of office.

Resignations

• Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation on September 1, 2008. The cabinet remained in office until the new cabinet was appointed - following the election of a new LDP chairman and prime minister. Cabinet resignation was tabled during the Kokkai special session on September 24, 2008.
• Agriculture Minister Seiichi Ōta resigned on September 19 to accept responsibility for a food scandal.

Web links

• Kantei , Japanese cabinet: 閣僚 名簿 等 (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ NHK World, August 1, 2008: Fukuda Reshuffles His Cabinet ( Memento of July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Japan Minister Quits in Rice Row. In: BBC News. September 19, 2008, accessed September 19, 2008 .