The is the 31st
Cabinet of Japan
The is the chief executive body of the government of Japan. It consists of the prime minister, who is appointed by the emperor after being designated by the National Diet, and up to nineteen other members, called Ministers of State. The prime ...
under the leadership of
Prime Minister Keisuke Okada from July 8, 1934 to March 9, 1936.
Cabinet
Okada was appointed on July 8, 1934 after his predecessor
Saitō Makoto had resigned over the
Teijin Incident. Okada's appointment dashed hopes for a revival of political party influence. His cabinet was the second "national unity cabinet" (''kyokoku itchi naikaku'') after the
Saitō Cabinet
The Saitō Cabinet is the 30th Cabinet of Japan led by Saitō Makoto
Viscount was a Japanese naval officer and politician. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Saitō Makoto"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 809. Upon distinguishing himself during ...
that had marked the end of the party rule of the 1920s and early 1930s, which was the so-called
Taishō Democracy. Key ministers came from the bureaucracy and the military, and other posts were held by politicians mostly from the minority
Minseitō and the
Shōwakai, a militarist breakaway group from the majority
Seiyūkai that had refused to let its members join the Okada Cabinet.
After the attempted coup d'état in the
February 26 Incident in 1936, the Okada Cabinet resigned. Following Genrō
Kinmochi Saionji
Prince was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1906 to 1908 and from 1911 to 1912. He was elevated from marquis to prince in 1920. As the last surviving member of Japan's ''genrō,'' he was the most i ...
's recommendation, the emperor appointed foreign minister Hirota Kōki as successor leading to the formation of the
Hirota Cabinet
The Hirota Cabinet is the 32nd Cabinet of Japan led by Kōki Hirota from March 9, 1936, to February 2, 1937.
Cabinet
References
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, another "national unity cabinet".
References
External links
* Kantei, Japanese Cabinet
Okada Cabinet
* National Diet Library
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