Chief Cabinet Secretary
Leader of the Japanese Cabinet
Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan
内閣官房長官 Naikaku-kanbō-chōkan |
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Emblem of the Government of Japan
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Cabinet Secretariat | |
Style | Mr. Secretary |
Member of |
Cabinet
National Security Council |
Reports to | The Prime Minister |
Appointer |
The
Prime Minister
attested to by the Emperor |
Term length | No fixed term |
Precursor | Secretary-General of the Cabinet |
Inaugural holder | Fumio Kyuma |
Formation | 3 May 1947 ; 76 years ago ( 1947-05-03 ) |
Succession | Second |
Deputy | Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary |
Salary | ¥20,916,000 |
Website | http://www.cas.go.jp/ |
The Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan ( 内閣官房長官 , Naikaku-kanbō-chōkan ) is a member of the cabinet and is the leader and chief executive of the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan . [1] The Chief Cabinet Secretary coordinates the policies of ministries and agencies in the executive branch, [2] and also serves as the government's press secretary . The secretary is a statutory member of the National Security Council , and is appointed by the Emperor upon the nomination by the Prime Minister . [3] The Chief Cabinet Secretary is the first in line of succession to the Prime Minister , unless the office of the Deputy Prime Minister is occupied. [4]
In March 1879, the precursor of the position, the Secretary-General of the Cabinet, was created. From 1885, it was included as part of the cabinet system, and the position was known in Japanese as 内閣書記官長 ( naikaku-shokikan-chō ) . The modern position was created on May 3, 1947, shortly after the passage of the Constitution of Japan , and elevated to ministerial status in 1966.
Since 1947, the office of Chief Cabinet Secretary has been regarded as a stepping stone to the post of Prime Minister. The first Chief Cabinet Secretary to become Prime Minister was Ichirō Hatoyama , who served in the position under Tanaka Giichi . Since then, eight other former Chief Cabinet Secretaries have become Prime Ministers, most recently Shinzō Abe , Yasuo Fukuda , and Yoshihide Suga .
Yoshihide Suga , who later became Prime Minister of Japan , served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Shinzo Abe for nearly eight years, making him the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in history, having overtaken the previous record of 1,289 days in office set by Fukuda on July 7, 2016. [5]
The current Chief Cabinet Secretary is Hirokazu Matsuno , who took office on 4 October 2021.
List of Secretary-Generals of the Cabinet
Shōwa Era
- Tsukamoto Kiyoji (December 25, 1926 – April 20, 1927)
- Ichirō Hatoyama (April 20, 1927 – July 2, 1929) - later became prime minister in the mid-1950s.
- 6 other holders (July 3, 1929 – October 19, 1934)
- Shigeru Yoshida (October 20, 1934 – May 11, 1935) - not to be confused with PM Shigeru Yoshida .
- 14 other holders (May 12, 1935 – April 6, 1945)
- Hisatsune Sakomizu (7 April 1945 – 15 August 1945)
- vacant (August 16, 1945 – October 9, 1945)
- Daizaburō Tsugita (October 9, 1945 – January 13, 1946)
- Wataru Narahashi (January 13, 1946 – May 22, 1946)
- Jyōji Hayashi (May 22, 1946 – May 2, 1947)
List of Chief Cabinet Secretaries
Shōwa Era
Liberal (1945)
Socialist
Democratic (1947)
Democratic Liberal
Liberal (1950)
Democratic (1954)
Liberal Democratic
Chief Cabinet Secretary | Term of office | Prime Minister | |||||
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Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||
Jōji Hayashi | May 3, 1947 | May 24, 1947 | 21 | Shigeru Yoshida | |||
Suehiro Nishio | June 1, 1947 | March 10, 1948 | 283 | Tetsu Katayama | |||
Gizō Tomabechi | March 10, 1948 | October 15, 1948 | 219 | Hitoshi Ashida | |||
Eisaku Satō [n 1] | October 17, 1948 | February 16, 1949 | 122 | Shigeru Yoshida | |||
Kaneshichi Masuda | February 16, 1949 | May 6, 1950 | 444 | ||||
Katsuo Okazaki | May 6, 1950 | December 26, 1951 | 599 | ||||
Shigeru Hori | December 26, 1951 | October 30, 1952 | 309 | ||||
Taketora Ogata | October 30, 1952 | May 21, 1953 | 203 | ||||
Kenji Fukunaga | May 21, 1953 | December 10, 1954 | 568 | ||||
Ryutarō Nemoto | December 10, 1954 | November 22, 1955 | 744 | Ichirō Hatoyama | |||
November 22, 1955 | December 23, 1956 | ||||||
Hirohide Ishida | December 12, 1956 | July 10, 1957 | 210 | Tanzan Ishibashi | |||
Nobusuke Kishi | |||||||
Kiichi Aichi | July 10, 1957 | June 12, 1958 | 337 | ||||
Munenori Akagi | June 12, 1958 | June 18, 1959 | 371 | ||||
Etsusaburō Shiina | June 18, 1959 | July 19, 1960 | 397 | ||||
Masayoshi Ōhira [n 2] | July 19, 1960 | July 18, 1962 | 729 | Hayato Ikeda | |||
Yasumi Kurogane | July 18, 1962 | July 18, 1964 | 731 | ||||
Zenkō Suzuki [n 3] | July 18, 1964 | November 9, 1964 | 114 | ||||
Tomisaburō Hashimoto | November 9, 1964 | August 1, 1966 | 630 | Eisaku Satō | |||
Kiichi Aichi | August 1, 1966 | December 3, 1966 | 124 | ||||
Kenji Fukunaga | December 3, 1966 | June 22, 1967 | 201 | ||||
Toshio Kimura | June 22, 1967 | November 30, 1968 | 527 | ||||
Shigeru Hori | November 30, 1968 | July 5, 1971 | 947 | ||||
Noboru Takeshita [n 4] | July 5, 1971 | July 7, 1972 | 368 | ||||
Susumu Nikaidō | July 7, 1972 | November 11, 1974 | 857 | Kakuei Tanaka | |||
Noboru Takeshita [n 4] | November 11, 1974 | December 9, 1974 | 28 | ||||
Ichitarō Ide | December 9, 1974 | December 24, 1976 | 746 | Takeo Miki | |||
Sunao Sonoda | December 24, 1976 | November 28, 1977 | 339 | Takeo Fukuda | |||
Shintaro Abe | November 28, 1977 | December 7, 1978 | 374 | ||||
Rokusuke Tanaka | December 7, 1978 | November 9, 1979 | 337 | Masayoshi Ōhira | |||
Masayoshi Ito [n 5] | November 9, 1979 | July 17, 1980 | 251 | ||||
Himself (Acting) | |||||||
Kiichi Miyazawa [n 6] | July 17, 1980 | November 27, 1982 | 863 | Zenkō Suzuki | |||
Masaharu Gotōda | November 27, 1982 | December 27, 1983 | 395 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | |||
Takao Fujinami | December 27, 1983 | December 28, 1985 | 732 | ||||
Masaharu Gotōda | December 28, 1985 | November 6, 1987 | 678 | ||||
Keizō Obuchi [n 7] | November 6, 1987 | January 7, 1989 | 428 | Noboru Takeshita | |||
Heisei Era
Liberal Democratic
Japan New Party
New Party Sakigake
Japan Renewal Party
Socialist
Democratic
Chief Cabinet Secretary | Term of office | Prime Minister | |||||
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Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||
Keizō Obuchi [n 7] | January 8, 1989 | June 3, 1989 | 147 | Noboru Takeshita | |||
Masajuro Shiokawa | June 3, 1989 | August 10, 1989 | 68 | Sōsuke Uno | |||
Tokuo Yamashita | August 10, 1989 | August 26, 1989 | 16 | Toshiki Kaifu | |||
Mayumi Moriyama | August 26, 1989 | February 28, 1990 | 186 | ||||
Misoji Sakamoto | February 28, 1990 | November 5, 1991 | 615 | ||||
Koichi Kato | November 5, 1991 | December 12, 1992 | 403 | Kiichi Miyazawa | |||
Yōhei Kōno | December 12, 1992 | August 9, 1993 | 240 | ||||
Masayoshi Takemura | August 9, 1993 | April 28, 1994 | 262 | Morihiro Hosokawa | |||
Hiroshi Kumagai | April 28, 1994 | June 30, 1994 | 63 | Tsutomu Hata | |||
Kozo Igarashi | June 30, 1994 | August 8, 1995 | 404 | Tomiichi Murayama | |||
Koken Nosaka | August 8, 1995 | January 11, 1996 | 156 | ||||
Seiroku Kajiyama | January 11, 1996 | September 11, 1997 | 609 | Ryutaro Hashimoto | |||
Kanezo Muraoka | September 11, 1997 | July 30, 1998 | 322 | ||||
Hiromu Nonaka | July 30, 1998 | October 10, 1999 | 432 | Keizo Obuchi | |||
Mikio Aoki | October 10, 1999 | July 4, 2000 | 273 | ||||
Yoshiro Mori | |||||||
Hidenao Nakagawa | July 4, 2000 | October 27, 2000 | 115 | ||||
Yasuo Fukuda [n 8] | October 27, 2000 | May 7, 2004 | 1380 | ||||
Junichiro Koizumi | |||||||
Hiroyuki Hosoda | May 7, 2004 | October 31, 2005 | 450 | ||||
Shinzo Abe [n 9] | October 31, 2005 | September 26, 2006 | 330 | ||||
Yasuhisa Shiozaki | September 26, 2006 | August 27, 2007 | 335 | Shinzo Abe | |||
Kaoru Yosano | August 27, 2007 | September 26, 2007 | 30 | ||||
Nobutaka Machimura | September 26, 2007 | September 24, 2008 | 364 | Yasuo Fukuda | |||
Takeo Kawamura | September 24, 2008 | September 16, 2009 | 357 | Taro Aso | |||
Hirofumi Hirano | September 16, 2009 | June 8, 2010 | 265 | Yukio Hatoyama | |||
Yoshito Sengoku | June 8, 2010 | January 4, 2011 | 210 | Naoto Kan | |||
Yukio Edano | January 4, 2011 | September 2, 2011 | 241 | ||||
Osamu Fujimura | September 2, 2011 | December 26, 2012 | 481 | Yoshihiko Noda | |||
Yoshihide Suga [n 10] | December 26, 2012 | April 30, 2019 | 2316 | Shinzo Abe |
Reiwa Era
Chief Cabinet Secretary | Term of office | Prime Minister | |||||
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Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||
Yoshihide Suga [n 10] | May 1, 2019 | September 16, 2020 | 504 | Shinzo Abe | |||
Katsunobu Katō | September 16, 2020 | October 4, 2021 | 383 | Yoshihide Suga | |||
Hirokazu Matsuno | October 4, 2021 | Incumbent | 669 | Fumio Kishida |
See also
Notes
- ↑ Later served as Prime Minister 1964-72
- ↑ Later served as Prime Minister 1978-80
- ↑ Later served as Prime Minister 1980-82
- 1 2 Later served as Prime Minister 1987-89
- ↑ Served as Acting Prime Minister on the death of Ōhira, 12 June - 17 July 1980
- ↑ Later served as Prime Minister 1991-93
- 1 2 Later served as Prime Minister 1998-2000
- ↑ Later served as Prime Minister 2007-08.
- ↑ Later served as Prime Minister 2006-07, 2012-20
- 1 2 Later served as Prime Minister 2020-21
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