Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)

The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (農林水産大臣code: ja is deprecated , Nourin-Suisan Daijin) is a member of the Cabinet of Japan. The minister is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan.

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
80px Emblem of the Government of Japan
File:Taku Etō (2019).jpg Incumbent Taku Etō since 11 November 2024
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Style	His Excellency
Member of	Cabinet of Japan
Reports to	Prime Minister of Japan
Nominator	Prime Minister of Japan
Appointer	Emperor of Japan attested to by the Emperor
Precursor	Minister of Education Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
Formation	July 5, 1978 (1978-07-05)
Deputy	State Minister of Agriculture
Salary	¥20,916,000

The current minister is Taku Etō, who took office on 11 November 2024.

List of ministers of agriculture, forestry and fisheries

      Liberal Democratic
<span style="border:1px solid #AAAAAA; background-color:; color:;">      Japan New Party
<span style="border:1px solid #AAAAAA; background-color:; color:;">      Japan Renewal Party
<span style="border:1px solid #AAAAAA; background-color:; color:;">      Socialist
      Democratic

Minister				Term of office			Prime minister
#	Portrait		Name	Took office	Left office	Days
1		File:Ichiro Nakagawa 1982 (cropped).jpg	Ichiro Nakagawa	July 5, 1978	December 7, 1978	155		Takeo Fukuda
2		140x140px	Michio Watanabe	December 7, 1978	November 9, 1979	337		Masayoshi Ōhira
3		File:Kabun Muto.jpg	Kabun Mutō	November 9, 1979	July 17, 1980	251
4			Takao Kameoka	July 17, 1980	November 30, 1981	501		Zenkō Suzuki
5		142x142px	Kichirō Tazawa	November 30, 1981	November 27, 1982	362
6		142x142px	Iwazo Kaneko	November 27, 1982	December 27, 1983	395		Yasuhiro Nakasone
7		142x142px	Shinjiro Yamamura	December 27, 1983	November 1, 1984	310
8			Moriyoshi Sato	November 1, 1984	December 28, 1985	422
9		142x142px	Tsutomu Hata	December 28, 1985	July 22, 1986	206
10			Mutsuki Kato	July 22, 1986	November 6, 1987	472
11			Takashi Sato	November 6, 1987	December 27, 1988	417		Noboru Takeshita
12 (9)		142x142px	Tsutomu Hata	December 27, 1988	June 3, 1989	158
13		142x142px	Hisao Horinouchi	June 3, 1989	August 10, 1989	68		Sōsuke Uno
14		142x142px	Michihiko Kano	August 10, 1989	February 28, 1990	202		Toshiki Kaifu
15			Tomio Yamamoto	February 28, 1990	December 29, 1990	304
16			Motoji Kondō	December 29, 1990	November 5, 1991	311
17			Masami Tanabu	November 5, 1991	August 4, 1993	638		Kiichi Miyazawa
18		142x142px	Kiichi Miyazawa	August 4, 1993	August 9, 1993	5
19			Eijiro Hata	August 9, 1993	April 28, 1994	262		Morihiro Hosokawa
ー (9)		142x142px	Tsutomu Hata (Acting)	April 28, 1994	April 28, 1994	0		Tsutomu Hata
20 (10)			Mutsuki Kato	April 28, 1994	June 30, 1994	63
21			Taichiro Ōkawara	June 30, 1994	August 8, 1995	404		Tomiichi Murayama
22		142x142px	Hosei Norota	August 8, 1995	January 11, 1996	156
23			Ichizo Ōhara	January 11, 1996	November 7, 1996	301		Ryutaro Hashimoto
24		142x142px	Takao Fujimoto	November 7, 1996	September 11, 1997	308
25			Ihei Ochi	September 11, 1997	September 26, 1997	15
26		142x142px	Yoshinobu Shimamura	September 26, 1997	July 30, 1998	307
27		142x142px	Shōichi Nakagawa	July 30, 1998	October 5, 1999	432		Keizō Obuchi
28			Tokuichiro Tamazawa	October 5, 1999	July 4, 2000	273		Keizō Obuchi
								Yoshirō Mori
29			Yoichi Tani	July 4, 2000	December 5, 2000	154
30			Yoshio Yatsu	December 5, 2000	April 26, 2001	142
31		142x142px	Tsutomu Takebe	April 26, 2001	September 30, 2002	522		Junichiro Koizumi
32		142x142px	Tadamori Ōshima	September 30, 2002	April 1, 2003	183
33		142x142px	Yoshiyuki Kamei	April 1, 2003	September 27, 2004	545
34 (26)		142x142px	Yoshinobu Shimamura	September 27, 2004	August 8, 2005	315
35		142x142px	Junichiro Koizumi	August 8, 2005	August 11, 2005	3
36		142x142px	Mineichi Iwanaga	August 11, 2005	October 31, 2005	81
37 (27)		142x142px	Shōichi Nakagawa	October 31, 2005	September 26, 2006	330
38		142x142px	Toshikatsu Matsuoka	September 26, 2006	May 28, 2007	244		Shinzo Abe
ー		142x142px	Masatoshi Wakabayashi (Acting)	May 28, 2007	June 1, 2007	4
39		File:Norihiko Akagi 2007.jpg	Norihiko Akagi	June 1, 2007	August 1, 2007	61
40		142x142px	Masatoshi Wakabayashi	August 1, 2007	August 27, 2007	26
41		142x142px	Takehiko Endo	August 27, 2007	September 3, 2007	7
ー		142x142px	Akira Amari (Acting)	September 3, 2007	September 4, 2007	1
42 (40)		142x142px	Masatoshi Wakabayashi	September 4, 2007	August 2, 2008	333		Shinzo Abe
								Yasuo Fukuda
43		File:Seiichi Ōta.jpg	Seiichi Ōta	August 2, 2008	September 19, 2008	48
ー		142x142px	Nobutaka Machimura (Acting)	September 19, 2008	September 26, 2008	7
44		142x142px	Shigeru Ishiba	September 26, 2008	September 16, 2009	355		Tarō Asō
45			Hirotaka Akamatsu	September 16, 2009	June 8, 2010	265		Yukio Hatoyama
46		File:Yamada Masahiko.jpg	Masahiko Yamada	June 8, 2010	September 17, 2010	101		Naoto Kan
47 (14)		142x142px	Michihiko Kano	September 17, 2010	June 4, 2012	626		Naoto Kan
								Yoshihiko Noda
48		142x142px	Akira Gunji	June 4, 2012	December 16, 2012	205
49			Yoshimasa Hayashi	December 16, 2012	September 3, 2014	616		Shinzo Abe
50		142x142px	Koya Nishikawa	September 3, 2014	February 23, 2015	173
51			Yoshimasa Hayashi	February 23, 2015	October 7, 2015	226
52		142x142px	Hiroshi Moriyama	October 7, 2015	August 3, 2016	301
53		142x142px	Yūji Yamamoto	August 3, 2016	August 3, 2017	365
54		142x142px	Ken Saitō	August 3, 2017	October 2, 2018	425
55		142x142px	Takamori Yoshikawa	October 2, 2018	September 11, 2019	344
56		142x142px	Taku Etō	September 11, 2019	September 16, 2020	371
57		142x142px	Kōtarō Nogami	September 16, 2020	October 4, 2021	383		Yoshihide Suga
58		142x142px	Genjirō Kaneko	October 4, 2021	August 10, 2022	310		Fumio Kishida
59		142x142px	Tetsuro Nomura	August 10, 2022	September 13, 2023	399
60		142x142px	Ichiro Miyashita	September 13, 2023	December 14, 2023	92
61		142x142px	Tetsushi Sakamoto	December 14, 2023	October 1, 2024	292
62		142x142px	Yasuhiro Ozato	October 1, 2024	November 11, 2024	41		Shigeru Ishiba
63 (56)		142x142px	Taku Etō	November 11, 2024	Incumbent	426

Other websites

• Official website