Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet (reshuffle)
Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet (reshuffle) | |
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91st Japanese Cabinet (reshuffle) dai-91-dai naikaku (kaizō) |
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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 .
Office | Surname | image | Political party | chamber | Faction |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ NHK World, August 1, 2008: Fukuda Reshuffles His Cabinet ( Memento of July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Japan Minister Quits in Rice Row. In: BBC News. September 19, 2008, accessed September 19, 2008 .