Minister of the Environment (Japan)
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Minister of the Environment | |
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Ministry of the Environment | |
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 | Director-General of the Environmental Agency |
Formation | January 6, 2001 |
Deputy | State Minister of the Environment |
Salary | ¥20,916,000 |
The current minister is Keiichiro Asao, who took office on 1 October 2024.
List of ministers of the environment (2001–)
Liberal Democratic
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Minister | Term of office | Prime Minister | ||||||
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# | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||
1 | Yoriko Kawaguchi | January 6, 2001 | February 8, 2002 | 398 | Yoshirō Mori | |||
Junichiro Koizumi | ||||||||
2 | Hiroshi Ōki | February 8, 2002 | September 30, 2002 | 234 | ||||
3 | Shun'ichi Suzuki | September 30, 2002 | September 22, 2003 | 357 | ||||
4 | Yuriko Koike | September 22, 2003 | September 26, 2006 | 1100 | ||||
5 | Masatoshi Wakabayashi | September 26, 2006 | August 27, 2007 | 335 | Shinzō Abe | |||
6 | Ichirō Kamoshita | August 27, 2007 | August 2, 2008 | 341 | ||||
Yasuo Fukuda | ||||||||
7 | Tetsuo Saito | August 2, 2008 | September 16, 2009 | 410 | ||||
Taro Aso | ||||||||
8 | Sakihito Ozawa | September 16, 2009 | September 21, 2010 | 370 | Yukio Hatoyama | |||
Naoto Kan | ||||||||
9 | Ryu Matsumoto | September 21, 2010 | September 2, 2011 | 346 | ||||
10 | Satsuki Eda | June 27, 2011 | September 2, 2011 | 67 | ||||
11 | Goshi Hosono | September 2, 2011 | October 1, 2012 | 395 | Yoshihiko Noda | |||
12 | Hiroyuki Nagahama | October 1, 2012 | December 26, 2012 | 86 | ||||
13 | Nobuteru Ishihara | December 26, 2012 | September 3, 2014 | 616 | Shinzō Abe | |||
14 | Yoshio Mochizuki | September 3, 2014 | October 7, 2015 | 399 | ||||
15 | Tamayo Marukawa | October 7, 2015 | August 3, 2016 | 301 | ||||
16 | Koichi Yamamoto | August 3, 2016 | August 3, 2017 | 365 | ||||
17 | Masaharu Nakagawa | August 3, 2017 | October 2, 2018 | 425 | ||||
18 | Yoshiaki Harada | October 2, 2018 | September 11, 2019 | 344 | ||||
19 | Shinjirō Koizumi | September 11, 2019 | October 4, 2021 | 754 | Yoshihide Suga | |||
20 | Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi | October 4, 2021 | August 10, 2022 | 310 | Fumio Kishida | |||
21 | Akihiro Nishimura | August 10, 2022 | September 13, 2023 | 399 | ||||
22 | Shintaro Ito | September 13, 2023 | October 1, 2024 | 384 | ||||
23 | Keiichiro Asao | October 1, 2024 | Incumbent | 3 | Shigeru Ishiba |