The Fourth Abe Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister
Shinzō Abe
Shinzo Abe ( ; ja, 安倍 晋三, Hepburn: , ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 20 ...
from November 2017 to September 2020. The government is a coalition between the
Liberal Democratic Party and the
Komeito
, formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalitio ...
(which had changed its name from "New Komeito" in the 2012–2014 term) and controls both the upper and lower houses of the
National Diet
The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors (, ...
.
Following his resignation, the Fourth Abe cabinet was dissolved on September 16, 2020, and replaced with the
Suga cabinet
The Suga Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga from 16 September 2020 to 4 October 2021. The government was a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democra ...
.
According to research by ''
Nikkan Gendai
is a tabloid-sized evening newspaper published Nikkan Hyundai Co., Ltd., a publisher belonging to the Otowa Group centered on Kodansha, and is a member of the Japan Magazine Publishers Association, an industry group of magazine publishers.
It ...
'', 10 out of 20 members in the Fourth Abe Cabinet had connections to the
Unification Church
The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, is a new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists, or "Moonies". It was officially founded on 1 May 1954 under the name Holy Spi ...
, in Japan by Shinzo Abe's grandfather, former Prime Minister
Nobusuke Kishi
was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.
Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shō ...
,
Yoshio Kodama
was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous '' kuromaku'', or behind-the-scenes power broker, of the 20th century, he was active in Japan's political arena and crimi ...
and
Ryōichi Sasakawa
was a Japanese suspected war criminal, businessman, far-right politician, and philanthropist. He was born in Minoh, Osaka. In the 1930s and during the Second World War he was active both in finance and in politics, actively supporting the Japane ...
.
[Richard J. Samuels: ''Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.'' Cornell University Press, 2019, S. 245. (englisch)] These connections were largely ignored by Japanese journalists.
Background
Election of the Prime Minister
Lists of Ministers
R = Member of the
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
C = Member of the
House of Councillors
The 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, ...
Cabinet
Changes
* February 27, 2018 – Okinawa and Northern Territories Minister
Tetsuma Esaki resigned and was replaced by
Teru Fukui
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Overviews
A native of Osaka, Osaka and graduate of the University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, ...
.
First Reshuffled Cabinet
Changes
* April 10, 2019 – Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister
Yoshitaka Sakurada
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He formerly served as Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Fourth Abe ...
resigned and was replaced by
Shun'ichi Suzuki.
Second Reshuffled Cabinet
Changes
* October 25, 2019 – Economy, Trade and Industry Minister
Isshu Sugawara
is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Career
Sugawara is a native of Nerima, Tokyo, and a graduate of Waseda University. After an un ...
resigned and was replaced by
Hiroshi Kajiyama.
* October 31, 2019 – Justice Minister
Katsuyuki Kawai resigned and was replaced by
Masako Mori.
References
External links
List of Ministers November 2017 – October 2018
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Cabinet of Japan
2017 establishments in Japan
2020 disestablishments in Japan
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2017 in Japanese politics
Shinzo Abe