Minister of the Environment (Japan)

The Minister of the Environment (環境大臣, Kankyō Daijin) is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of the Environment.

Minister of the Environment (2001–)

  Liberal Democratic
  New Komeito/Komeito
  Democratic

Minister				Term of office			Prime Minister
#	Portrait		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Days
1	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=2|		Yoriko Kawaguchi	January 6, 2001	February 8, 2002	398	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |	Yoshirō Mori
	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=4|						Junichiro Koizumi
2	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Hiroshi Ōki	February 8, 2002	September 30, 2002	234
3	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Shunichi Suzuki	September 30, 2002	September 22, 2003	357
4	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Yuriko Koike	September 22, 2003	September 26, 2006	1100
5	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Masatoshi Wakabayashi	September 26, 2006	August 27, 2007	335	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=2|	Shinzō Abe
6	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=2|		Ichirō Kamoshita	August 27, 2007	August 2, 2008	341
	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=2|						Yasuo Fukuda
7	style="background-color: Template:Komeito/meta/color" rowspan=2|		Tetsuo Saito	August 2, 2008	September 16, 2009	410
	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |						Taro Aso
8	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" rowspan=2|		Sakihito Ozawa	September 16, 2009	September 21, 2010	370	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" |	Yukio Hatoyama
	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" rowspan=2|						Naoto Kan
9	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" |		Ryu Matsumoto	September 21, 2010	September 2, 2011	346
10	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" |		Goshi Hosono	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012	395	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" rowspan=2|	Yoshihiko Noda
11	style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" |		Hiroyuki Nagahama	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012	86
12	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Nobuteru Ishihara	December 26, 2012	September 3, 2014	616	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=7|	Shinzō Abe
13	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Yoshio Mochizuki	September 3, 2014	October 7, 2015	399
14	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Tamayo Marukawa	October 7, 2015	August 3, 2016	301
15	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Koichi Yamamoto	August 3, 2016	August 3, 2017	365
16	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Masaharu Nakagawa	August 3, 2017	October 2, 2018	425
17	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Yoshiaki Harada	October 2, 2018	September 11, 2019	344
18	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" |		Shinjirō Koizumi	September 11, 2019	Incumbent	1735