You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (September 2020)Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Suga Cabinet | |
---|---|
99th Cabinet of Japan | |
Date formed | September 16, 2020 |
Date dissolved | October 4, 2021 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Emperor Naruhito |
Head of government | Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga |
Head of government's history | Member of the HoR for Kanagawa 2nd district (1996-) Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2006-2007) Chief Cabinet Secretary (2012-2020) |
Deputy head of government | Tarō Asō |
Total no. of members | 27 |
Member party | Liberal Democratic–Komeito Coalition |
Status in legislature | HoR: LDP-K Coalition supermajority HoC: LDP-K Coalition majority |
Opposition party | Constitutional Democratic Party |
Opposition leader | Yukio Edano |
History | |
Predecessor | Fourth Abe Cabinet (Second Reshuffled) |
Successor | First Kishida Cabinet |
The Suga Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga from 16 September 2020 to 4 October 2021. [1] The government was a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito and controlled both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.
Following his resignation, the Suga cabinet was dissolved on October 4, 2021, and replaced with the First Kishida Cabinet after being in office for 384 days. [2] [3] [4]
House of Representatives | |||
---|---|---|---|
Choice | First Vote | ||
Votes | |||
Yoshihide Suga | 314 / 465 | ||
Yukio Edano | 134 / 465 | ||
Toranosuke Katayama | 11 / 465 | ||
Nariaki Nakayama | 2 / 465 | ||
Shinjiro Koizumi | 1 / 465 | ||
Abstentions/vacant | 3 / 465 | ||
Source [5] | |||
House of Councillors | |||
---|---|---|---|
Choice | First Vote | ||
Votes | |||
Yoshihide Suga | 142 / 245 | ||
Yukio Edano | 78 / 245 | ||
Toranosuke Katayama | 16 / 245 | ||
Takae Itō | 1 / 245 | ||
Blank | 3 / 245 | ||
Abstentions/vacant | 5 / 245 | ||
Source [6] | |||
Liberal Democratic
Komeito
R = Member of the House of Representatives
C = Member of the House of Councillors
B = Bureaucrat
Portfolio | Minister | Term | Note | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prime Minister | Yoshihide Suga | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Finance Minister of State for Financial Services Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation | Tarō Asō | R | December 26, 2012 – October 4, 2021 | [9] [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications | Ryota Takeda | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Justice | Yōko Kamikawa | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister for Foreign Affairs | Toshimitsu Motegi | R | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Defense | Nobuo Kishi | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding | Koichi Hagiuda | R | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Minister in charge of Working-style Reform | Norihisa Tamura | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | Kōtarō Nogami | C | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness Minister for Economic Cooperation with Russia Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact caused by the Nuclear Accident Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation | Hiroshi Kajiyama | R | October 25, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister in charge of Water Cycle Policy | Kazuyoshi Akaba | R | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of the Environment Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Minister in charge of climate change (since March 9, 2021) | Shinjiro Koizumi | R | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minister in charge of Mitigating the Impact of U.S. Forces in Okinawa Minister in charge of the Abductions Issue | Katsunobu Katō | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [9] [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of Reconstruction Minister in charge of Comprehensive Policy Coordination for Revival from the Nuclear Accident at Fukushima | Katsuei Hirasawa | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission Minister in charge of Building National Resilience Minister in charge of Territorial Issues Minister of State for Disaster Management Minister of State for Ocean Policy | Hachiro Okonogi | R | September 16, 2020 – June 25, 2021 | |||
Yasufumi Tanahashi | R | June 25, 2021 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | |||
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Minister of State for Regulatory Reform Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccination (since January 18, 2021) | Tarō Kōno | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister for Promoting Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens Minister in charge of Regional Revitalization Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate Minister of State for Regional Revitalization Minister of Loneliness (since February 12, 2021) | Tetsushi Sakamoto | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization Minister in charge of Social Security Reform | Yasutoshi Nishimura | R | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System Minister in charge of Digital Transformation Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy | Takuya Hirai | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] | ||
Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment Minister of State for Gender Equality | Seiko Hashimoto | C | September 11, 2019 – February 18, 2021 | [10] | ||
Tamayo Marukawa | C | February 18, 2021 – October 4, 2021 | [10] | |||
Minister in charge of the Osaka World Expo Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Minister of State for "Cool Japan" Strategy Minister of State for the Intellectual Strategy Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Minister of State for Space Policy | Shinji Inoue | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | [8] [7] [1] |
Portfolio | Deputy Minister | Term | Note | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary | Manabu Sakai | R | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | |||
Naoki Okada | C | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | ||||
Kazuhiro Sugita | B | December 26, 2012 – October 4, 2021 | former: National Police Agency | |||
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau | Masaharu Kondo | B | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | former: the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
Portfolio | Adviser | Term | Note | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for National Security | Minoru Kihara | R | September 11, 2019 – October 4, 2021 | |||
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Diplomacy and Economic Issues | Masashi Adachi | C | September 16, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | |||
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Social Capital Development, Regional Revitalization, National Resilience, Reconstruction, Health and Medical Care, Scientific and Technological Innovation | Hiroto Izumi | B | January 21, 2013 – October 4, 2021 | from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | ||
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister in charge of Policy Evaluation and Verification | Meiji Kakizaki | B | October 1, 2020 – October 4, 2021 | former journalist of Kyodo News | ||
The National Diet is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, the House of Councillors. Both houses are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister. The Diet was first established as the Imperial Diet in 1890 under the Meiji Constitution, and took its current form in 1947 upon the adoption of the post-war constitution. Both houses meet in the National Diet Building in Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
The House of Councillors is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or the nomination of the prime minister, the House of Representatives can insist on its decision. In other decisions, the House of Representatives can override a vote of the House of Councillors only by a two-thirds majority of members present.
Yoshihide Suga is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2020 to 2021. He had served as Chief Cabinet Secretary during the second administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from 2012 to 2020. During Abe's first administration, Suga served as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from 2006 to 2007.
Yōichi Masuzoe is a Japanese politician who was elected to the position of governor of Tokyo in 2014 and resigned in June 2016 due to the misuse of public funds. He was previously a member of the Japanese House of Councillors and the Japanese Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare. Before entering politics, he became well known in Japan as a television commentator on political issues.
Yasutoshi Nishimura is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry from August 2022 until December 2023. Nishimura previously served as Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2003, representing Hyogo's 9th district.
Yukio Edano is a Japanese politician who served as the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan from its formation in 2017 until 2021.
Hisashi Tokunaga is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet. A graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007 after serving in the assembly of Shiga Prefecture.
Nagasaki 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Nagasaki and covers parts of the city of Nagasaki, the cities of Shimabara, Isahaya, Saikai, Unzen and Minamishimabara as well as the Nishisonogi District with the towns of Togitsu and Nagayo. As of 2009, 335,195 eligible voters were registered in the district.
The 2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election took place on February 9, 2014 to replace outgoing Governor Naoki Inose, who resigned effective December 24, 2013. Yōichi Masuzoe was declared the winner in exit polling, with a substantial lead over the fifteen other candidates. His final tally was 2,112,979 votes (42.86%), with his two closest competitors Morihiro Hosokawa and Kenji Utsunomiya failing to break the 20% mark. Total turnout was 4,930,251 (46.14%), significantly lower than the 62.6% turnout in the 2012 election.
General elections were held in Japan on 31 October 2021, as required by the constitution. Voting took place in all constituencies in order to elect members to the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet. As the constitution requires the cabinet to resign in the first Diet session after a general election, the elections will also lead to a new election for Prime Minister in the Diet, and the appointment of a new cabinet, although ministers may be re-appointed. The election was the first general election of the Reiwa era.
A referendum was held in Okinawa Prefecture on 24 February 2019. The referendum asked whether voters approved or opposed the landfill work at Henoko Bay for the construction of a new United States Marine Corps base. This is the second prefecture-wide referendum in Okinawa, the first being the 1996 referendum on the reduction of US military presence. Governor Denny Tamaki announced the referendum in November 2018, fulfilling his manifesto promise from his successful campaign for governor.
The 2020 Liberal Democratic Party of Japan leadership election was triggered by Shinzo Abe's announcement on 28 August 2020 that he would resign as President of the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Japan, citing a relapse of his colitis. Voting took place on 14 September 2020 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, three days before the National Diet was scheduled to hold a session to elect the new Prime Minister. Initially scheduled to be held in September 2021, incumbent LDP president and the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, suddenly resigned on 28 August 2020, citing recent health concerns, prompting an election to select the President to serve the rest of Abe's term.
Mariko Suga is the wife of former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
The 2021 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election was held on 29 September 2021 to elect the next President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and Prime Minister of Japan. Kishida was elected to lead the party, and assumed the premiership on 4 October. He led the party into the 2021 Japanese general election.
The First Kishida Cabinet was the 100th Cabinet of Japan. Formed by Fumio Kishida on October 4, 2021, it had 21 members, including three women. Two ministers, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, retained their posts from the previous cabinet. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito who controlled both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.
The Asō Cabinet governed Japan from 24 September 2008 to 16 September 2009 by Prime Minister Tarō Asō after his predecessor Yasuo Fukuda resigned.
The Second Kishida Cabinet (First Reshuffle) was the 101st Cabinet of Japan and was formed by Fumio Kishida, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Japan in August 2022. The cabinet governed Japan from 10 August 2022 to 13 September 2023.
Kimi Onoda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. She served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense from 2022 to 2023 and is a member of the House of Councillors representing Okayama. She previously served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021 under the Suga Cabinet.
Dappi (@dappi2019) was an anonymous Twitter account that conducted smear campaigns against progressive opposition parties in Japan between 2019 and 2021. During this period, the account posted highly biased tweets designed to discredit and undermine the reputation of the country's progressives while simultaneously praising the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and conservative opposition parties. While active on Twitter, Dappi made a number of false or defamatory claims aimed at swaying public opinion against progressive opposition parties, which led to the targeted individuals filing a lawsuit. In 2021, it was revealed that the account was operated by a company with close ties to the LDP.
The 2024Liberal Democratic Party presidential election will be held on September 2024 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan for a 3-year term. The winner of the election will effectively become the Prime Minister of Japan and will lead the party in the next Japanese general election and the next House of Councillors election in July 2025.