The Suga Cabinet governed

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under the leadership of

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Yoshihide Suga from 16 September 2020 to 4 October 2021. The government was a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the

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and controlled both the upper and lower houses of the

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. Following his resignation, the Suga cabinet was dissolved on October 4, 2021, and replaced with the

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after being in office for 384 days.

Election of the Prime Minister

Lists of Ministers

R = Member of the House of Representatives
C = Member of the House of Councillors
B = Bureaucrat

Cabinet

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary and Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau

Special Adviser to the Prime Minister

References

External links

List of Ministers September 2020 – October 2021
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