Minister of Justice (Japan)
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Minister of Justice | |
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Ministry of Justice | |
Style | His Excellency |
Member of | Cabinet of Japan |
Reports to | Prime Minister of Japan |
Appointer | Prime Minister of Japan attested to by the Emperor |
Formation | August 1, 1952 |
Deputy | State Minister of Justice |
Salary | ¥20,916,000 |
The current minister is Hideki Makihara, who took office on 1 October 2024.
List of ministers of justice
1952–2000
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Justice minister | Term of office | Prime minister | ||||||
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# | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||
1 | Tokutaro Kimura | August 1, 1952 | October 30, 1952 | 90 | Shigeru Yoshida | |||
2 | Takeru Inukai | October 30, 1952 | April 22, 1954 | 539 | ||||
3 | Ryogo Kato | April 22, 1954 | June 19, 1954 | 58 | ||||
4 | Naoshi Ohara | June 19, 1954 | December 10, 1954 | 174 | ||||
5 | Shiro Hamamura | December 10, 1954 | November 22, 1955 | 347 | Ichirō Hatoyama | |||
6 | Ryozo Makino | November 22, 1955 | December 23, 1956 | 397 | ||||
7 | Umekichi Nakamura | December 23, 1956 | July 10, 1957 | 199 | Tanzan Ishibashi | |||
Nobusuke Kishi | ||||||||
8 | Toshiki Karasa | July 10, 1957 | June 12, 1958 | 337 | ||||
9 | Kiichi Aichi | June 12, 1958 | June 18, 1959 | 371 | ||||
10 | Hiroya Ino | June 18, 1959 | July 19, 1960 | 397 | ||||
11 | Tetsuzo Kojima | July 19, 1960 | December 8, 1960 | 142 | Hayato Ikeda | |||
12 | Koshiro Ueki | December 8, 1960 | July 18, 1962 | 587 | ||||
13 | Kunio Nakagaki | July 18, 1962 | July 18, 1963 | 365 | ||||
14 | Okinori Kaya | July 18, 1963 | July 18, 1964 | 366 | ||||
15 | Hitoshi Takahashi | July 18, 1964 | June 3, 1965 | 320 | ||||
Eisaku Satō | ||||||||
16 | Mitsujirō Ishii | June 3, 1965 | December 3, 1966 | 548 | ||||
17 | Isaji Tanaka | December 3, 1966 | November 25, 1967 | 357 | ||||
18 | Bunzo Akama | November 25, 1967 | November 30, 1968 | 371 | ||||
19 | Kichinosuke Saigo | November 30, 1968 | January 14, 1970 | 410 | ||||
20 | Takeji Kobayashi | January 14, 1970 | February 9, 1971 | 391 | ||||
21 | Daisuke Akita | February 9, 1971 | February 17, 1971 | 8 | ||||
22
(12) |
Koshiro Ueki | February 17, 1971 | July 5, 1971 | 138 | ||||
23 | Shigesaburō Maeo | July 5, 1971 | July 7, 1972 | 368 | ||||
24 | Yuichi Kori | July 7, 1972 | December 22, 1972 | 168 | Kakuei Tanaka | |||
25 | Isaji Tanaka | December 22, 1972 | November 25, 1973 | 338 | ||||
26 | Umekichi Nakamura | November 25, 1973 | November 11, 1974 | 351 | ||||
27 | Seigo Hamano | November 11, 1974 | December 9, 1974 | 28 | ||||
28 | Osamu Inaba | December 9, 1974 | December 24, 1976 | 746 | Takeo Miki | |||
29 | Hajime Fukuda | December 24, 1976 | October 5, 1977 | 285 | Takeo Fukuda | |||
30 | Mitsuo Setayama | October 5, 1977 | December 7, 1978 | 428 | ||||
31 | Yoshimi Furui | December 7, 1978 | November 9, 1979 | 337 | Masayoshi Ōhira | |||
32 | Tadao Kuraishi | November 9, 1979 | July 17, 1980 | 251 | ||||
33 | Seisuke Okuno | July 17, 1980 | November 30, 1980 | 502 | Zenkō Suzuki | |||
34 | Michita Sakata | November 30, 1980 | November 27, 1982 | 727 | ||||
35 | Hatano Akira | November 27, 1982 | December 27, 1983 | 395 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | |||
36 | Eisaku Sumi | December 27, 1983 | November 1, 1984 | 310 | ||||
37 | Hitoshi Shimazaki | November 1, 1984 | December 28, 1985 | 422 | ||||
38 | Seigo Suzuki | December 28, 1985 | July 22, 1986 | 206 | ||||
39 | Kaname Endo | July 22, 1986 | November 6, 1987 | 472 | ||||
40 | Yukio Hasegawa | November 6, 1987 | December 27, 1988 | 416 | Noboru Takeshita | |||
41 | Takashi Hasegawa | December 27, 1998 | December 30, 1998 | 3 | ||||
42 | Masami Takatsuji | December 30, 1998 | June 3 1989 | 185 | ||||
43 | Kazuo Tanikawa | June 3 1989 | August 10, 1989 | 38 | Sōsuke Uno | |||
44 | Masao Goto | August 10, 1989 | February 28, 1990 | 202 | Toshiki Kaifu | |||
45 | Shin Hasegawa | February 28, 1990 | September 13, 1990 | 197 | ||||
46 | Seiroku Kajiyama | September 13, 1990 | December 29, 1990 | 107 | ||||
47 | Megumi Sato | December 29, 1990 | November 5, 1991 | 676 | ||||
48 | Takashi Tawara | November 5, 1991 | December 12, 1992 | 403 | Kiichi Miyazawa | |||
49 | Masaharu Gotōda | December 12, 1992 | August 9, 1993 | 240 | ||||
50 | Akira Mikazuki | August 9, 1993 | April 28, 1994 | 262 | Morihiro Hosokawa | |||
52 | Nagano Shigeto | April 28, 1994 | May 8, 1994 | 10 | Tsutomu Hata | |||
53 | Hiroshi Nakai | May 8, 1994 | June 30, 1994 | 53 | ||||
54 | Isao Maeda | June 30, 1994 | August 8, 1995 | 404 | Tomiichi Murayama | |||
55 | Tomoharu Tazawa | August 8, 1995 | October 8, 1995 | 61 | ||||
56 | Hiroshi Miyazawa | October 8, 1995 | January 11, 1996 | 95 | ||||
57 | Ritsuko Nagao | January 11, 1996 | November 7, 1996 | 301 | Ryutaro Hashimoto | |||
58 | Isao Matsuura | November 7, 1996 | September 11, 1997 | 308 | ||||
59 | Kokichi Shimoinaba | September 11, 1997 | July 30, 1998 | 322 | ||||
60 | Shozaburo Nakamura | July 30, 1998 | March 8, 1999 | 221 | Keizō Obuchi | |||
61 | Takao Jinnouchi | March 8, 1999 | October 5, 1999 | 211 | ||||
62 | Hideo Usui | October 5, 1999 | July 4, 2000 | 273 | ||||
Yoshirō Mori | ||||||||
63 | Okiharu Yasuoka | July 4, 2000 | December 5, 2000 | 154 | ||||
64 | Masahiko Komura | December 5, 2000 | January 6, 2001 | 32 |
2001–present
Justice minister | Term of office | Prime minister | ||||||
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# | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||
65
(64) |
Masahiko Kōmura | January 6, 2001 | April 26, 2001 | 110 | Yoshirō Mori | |||
66 | Mayumi Moriyama | April 26, 2001 | September 22, 2003 | 879 | Junichiro Koizumi | |||
67 | Daizō Nozawa | September 22, 2003 | September 27, 2004 | 371 | ||||
68 | Chieko Nōno | September 27, 2004 | October 31, 2005 | 399 | ||||
69 | Seiken Sugiura | October 31, 2005 | September 26, 2006 | 330 | ||||
70 | Jinen Nagase | September 26, 2006 | August 27, 2007 | 335 | Shinzō Abe | |||
71 | Kunio Hatoyama | August 27, 2007 | August 2, 2008 | 341 | ||||
Yasuo Fukuda | ||||||||
72 | Okiharu Yasuoka | August 2, 2008 | September 24, 2008 | 53 | ||||
73 | Eisuke Mori | September 24, 2008 | September 16, 2009 | 357 | Taro Aso | |||
74 | Keiko Chiba | September 16, 2009 | September 7, 2010 | 356 | Yukio Hatoyama | |||
Naoto Kan | ||||||||
75 | Minoru Yanagida | September 7, 2010 | November 22, 2010 | 76 | ||||
76 | Yoshito Sengoku | November 22, 2010 | January 14, 2011 | 53 | ||||
77 | Satsuki Eda | January 14, 2011 | September 2, 2011 | 231 | ||||
78 | Hideo Hiraoka | September 2, 2011 | January 13, 2012 | 133 | Yoshihiko Noda | |||
79 | Toshio Ogawa | January 13, 2012 | June 4, 2012 | 143 | ||||
16 | Makoto Taki | June 4, 2012 | October 1, 2012 | 119 | ||||
17 | Keishu Tanaka | October 1, 2012 | October 23, 2012 | 22 | ||||
18 (16) |
Makoto Taki | October 23, 2012 | December 26, 2012 | 64 | ||||
19 | Sadakazu Tanigaki | December 26, 2012 | September 3, 2014 | 616 | Shinzō Abe | |||
20 | Midori Matsushima | September 3, 2014 | October 20, 2014 | 47 | ||||
21 | Yōko Kamikawa | October 20, 2014 | October 7, 2015 | 352 | ||||
22 | Mitsuhide Iwaki | October 7, 2015 | August 3, 2016 | 301 | ||||
23 | Katsutoshi Kaneda | August 3, 2016 | August 3, 2017 | 365 | ||||
24 (21) |
Yōko Kamikawa | August 3, 2017 | October 2, 2018 | 425 | ||||
25 | Takashi Yamashita | October 2, 2018 | September 11, 2019 | 344 | ||||
26 | Katsuyuki Kawai | September 11, 2019 | October 31, 2019 | 50 | ||||
27 | Masako Mori | October 31, 2019 | September 16, 2020 | 321 | ||||
28 (21) |
Yōko Kamikawa | September 16, 2020 | October 4, 2021 | 383 | Yoshihide Suga | |||
29 | Yoshihisa Furukawa | October 4, 2021 | 10 August 2022 | 310 | Fumio Kishida | |||
30 | Yasuhiro Hanashi | 10 August 2022 | 11 November 2022 | 93 | ||||
31 | Ken Saitō | November 11, 2022 | September 13, 2023 | 306 | ||||
32 | Ryuji Koizumi | September 13, 2023 | October 1, 2024 | 384 | ||||
33 | Hideki Makihara | October 1, 2024 | Incumbent | 4 | Shigeru Ishiba |
References
- ↑ "History of the Ministry of Justice". Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 2024-06-16.