The Third Abe cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of the 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 December 2014 to November 2017. The government was 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 controlled 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 the
2017 general election, the Third Abe cabinet was dissolved on November 1, 2017, and it was replaced by the
Fourth Abe cabinet
The Fourth Abe Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from November 2017 to September 2020. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito (which had changed its name from " ...
.
Background
Following the snap "Abenomics Dissolution" and
general election of 2014, Abe was re-elected by the Diet and chose to retain all the ministers from his previous cabinet except the defense minister,
Akinori Eto
is a Japanese politician and the former defense minister of Japan.
Overview
Eto is a politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Towada, Aomori, he atte ...
, who had been involved in a money scandal. Abe explained that he aimed to avoid the disruption of another major personnel change only three months after the
September cabinet reshuffle.
Abe conducted three reshuffles of his third administration. The first took place in October 2015 following his re-election to another three-year term as president of the LDP and the launch of his "Abenomics 2.0" policies. The second reshuffle occurred in August 2016, following the victory of the ruling coalition in the
July 2016 upper house elections, the first time since 1989 that the LDP held an outright majority in 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, ...
. The third reshuffle occurred in August 2017.
Election of the prime minister
Lists of ministers
R = Member of the
House of Representatives
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C = Member of the
House of Councillors
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Cabinet
Changes
* February 23, 2015 – The agriculture minister,
Koya Nishikawa
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shioya District, Tochigi he attended Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as both undergrad ...
, resigned because of a campaign finance scandal. His immediate predecessor,
Yoshimasa Hayashi
is a Japanese politician who currently serves as Minister for Foreign Affairs since November 2021. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also serves in the House of Representatives for the Yamaguchi 3rd district since 2021.
Early life ...
, was recalled to replace him.
* June 25, 2015 – A new position of minister for the Olympics was created.
Toshiaki Endo
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kaminoyama, Yamagata and graduate of Chuo University (where he played Rugby), he was elected to t ...
was appointed the inaugural minister.
First reshuffled cabinet
Changes
* January 28, 2016 – The economic revitalization minister,
Akira Amari
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a member of the lower house representing the Minami Kanto Bloc.
Personal life
Amari is a native of Atsugi, Kanagawa, where he attended Kanagawa Prefectural Atsugi High Schoo ...
, resignedbecause of a bribery scandal and was replaced with
Nobuteru Ishihara
is a Japanese politician who was Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2010 to 2012.
He was born in Zushi, Kanagawa, the son of author and former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara. He attended Keio Gijuku High School and gradu ...
.
* July 2016 – The justice minister,
Mitsuhide Iwaki, and the Okinawa minister,
Aiko Shimajiri
is a Japanese politician, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature) who was elected for the first time in 2007 and re-elected in 2010 in Okinawa Prefecture constituency. Shimajiri was appointed the M ...
, lost their seats in the
House of Councillors election but remained in office as ministers until the August cabinet reshuffle.
Second reshuffled cabinet
Changes
* April 26, 2017 – The reconstruction minister,
Masahiro Imamura
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Overview
A native of Kashima, Saga and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the House ...
, was dismissed because of comments he made about the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...
and was replaced by
Masayoshi Yoshino
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three term ...
.
* July 28, 2017 – The defense minister,
Tomomi Inada
is a Japanese lawyer and politician serving as a member of the Japanese House of Representatives, representing the 1st Fukui Prefecture since September 2005. She previously served as the 14th Japanese Minister of Defense from August 2016 to Jul ...
, resigned.
Third reshuffled cabinet
References
External links
Pages at the
Kantei
The Prime Minister's Official Residence is the official workplace and residence of the Prime Minister of Japan. It is commonly referred to as , , or simply .
Located at 2-3-1 Nagata-chō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100–8968, it is diagonally adjacen ...
(English website):
List of Ministers December 2014 – October 2015
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