Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
Deputy Prime Minister of Japan 副総理 Fuku-sōri | |
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Appointer | The Prime Minister attested to by the Emperor |
Inaugural holder | Kijūrō Shidehara |
Formation | 3 May 1947 |
The Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (副総理, Fuku-sōri) is a senior member of the Cabinet of Japan. The office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not a permanent position, existing only at the discretion of the Prime Minister.
Deputy prime minister possesses no special powers as such, though they will always have particular responsibilities in government. They do not automatically succeed the Prime Minister, should the latter be incapacitated or resign from the leadership of his or her political party. In practice, however, the designation of someone to the role of Deputy Prime Minister may provide additional practical status within cabinet, enabling the exercise of de facto, if not de jure, power.
The current Deputy Prime Minister is Tarō Asō, who took the post on 26 December 2012.
List of Deputy Prime Ministers of Japan
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Japan Progressive Japan Liberal - Democratic Liberal - Liberal |
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Deputy Prime Minister | Term of office | Prime Minister | |||||
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Kijūrō Shidehara 幣原 喜重郎 Shidehara Kijūrō (1872–1951) |
3 May 1947 | 24 May 1947 | 21 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party/meta/color" | | Shigeru Yoshida | |
Office not in use | 1947 | 8 | style="background-color: Template:Japan Socialist Party/meta/color" rowspan=2 | | Tetsu Katayama | |||
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Hitoshi Ashida 芦田 均 Ashida Hitoshi (1887–1959) |
1 June 1947 | 10 March 1948 | 283 | |||
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Suehiro Nishio 西尾 末広 Nishio Suehiro (1891-1981) |
10 March 1948 | 6 July 1948 | 118 | Hitoshi Ashida | |
Office not in use | 1948 | 87 | |||||
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Jōji Hayashi 林 譲治 Hayashi Jōji (1889-1960) |
19 October 1948 | 13 March 1951 | 875 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party/meta/color" rowspan=3 | | Shigeru Yoshida |
Office not in use | 1951-1952 | 626 | |||||
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Taketora Ogata 緒方 竹虎 Ogata Taketora (1888-1956) |
28 November 1952 | 10 December 1954 | 742 | ||
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Mamoru Shigemitsu 重光 葵 Shigemitsu Mamoru (1887-1957) |
10 December 1954 | 23 December 1956 | 744 | Ichirō Hatoyama | |
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Office not in use | 1956-1957 | 148 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background:Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color;"| | Tanzan Ishibashi | |||
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Mitsujirō Ishii 石井 光次郎 Ishii Mitsujirō (1889-1981) |
20 May 1957 | 12 June 1958 | 388 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=3 | | Nobusuke Kishi |
Office not in use | 1958-1959 | 371 | |||||
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Shūji Masutani 益谷 秀次 Masutani Shūji (1888-1978) |
18 June 1959 | 19 July 1960 | 397 | ||
Office not in use | 1960-1972 | 4424 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background:Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color;"| | Hayato Ikeda | |||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background:Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color;"| | Eisaku Satō | ||||||
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Takeo Miki 三木 武夫 Miki Takeo (1907-1988) |
29 August 1972 | 12 July 1974 | 682 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=2 | | Kakuei Tanaka |
Office not in use | 1974 | 150 | |||||
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Takeo Fukuda 福田 赳夫 Fukuda Takeo (1905-1995) |
9 December 1974 | 6 November 1976 | 698 | style="border-bottom:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Takeo Miki |
Office not in use | 1976-1980 | 1313 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Takeo Fukuda | ||||||
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Masayoshi Ito 伊東 正義 Itō Masayoshi (1913-1994) |
11 June 1980 | 17 July 1980 | 36 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Masayoshi Ōhira |
Office not in use | 1980-1986 | 2196 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Zenkō Suzuki | |||
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Shin Kanemaru 金丸 信 Kanemaru Shin (1914-1996) |
22 July 1986 | 6 November 1987 | 472 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Yasuhiro Nakasone |
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Kiichi Miyazawa 宮澤 喜一 Miyazawa Kiichi (1919-2007) |
6 November 1987 | 9 December 1988 | 399 | style="border-bottom:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Noboru Takeshita |
Office not in use | 1988-1991 | 1061 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Sōsuke Uno | ||||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Toshiki Kaifu | ||||||
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Michio Watanabe 渡辺 美智雄 Watanabe Michio (1923-1995) |
5 November 1991 | 7 April 1993 | 519 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" rowspan=2| | Kiichi Miyazawa |
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8 April 1993 | 9 August 1993 | 123 | ||
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Tsutomu Hata 羽田 孜 Hata Tsutomu (1935-2017) |
9 August 1993 | 28 April 1994 | 262 | style="background-color: Template:Eight-party Alliance/meta/color" | | Morihiro Hosokawa |
Office not in use | 1994 | 63 | style="background-color: Template:Japan Renewal Party/meta/color" | | Tsutomu Hata | |||
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Yōhei Kōno 河野 洋平 Kōno Yōhei (1937-) |
30 June 1994 | 2 October 1995 | 459 | style="background-color: Template:Japan Socialist Party/meta/color" rowspan=2| | Tomiichi Murayama |
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Ryutaro Hashimoto 橋本 龍太郎 Hashimoto Ryūtarō (1937-2006) |
2 October 1995 | 11 January 1996 | 101 | ||
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Wataru Kubo 久保 亘 Kubo Wataru (1929-2003) |
11 January 1996 | 7 November 1996 | 301 | style="border-bottom:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Ryutaro Hashimoto |
Office not in use | 1996-2009 | 4696 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | ||||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Keizō Obuchi | ||||||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Yoshirō Mori | ||||||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Junichiro Koizumi | ||||||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Shinzō Abe | ||||||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Yasuo Fukuda | ||||||
style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Tarō Asō | ||||||
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Naoto Kan 菅 直人 Kan Naoto (1946-) |
16 September 2009 | 8 June 2010 | 265 | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" | | Yukio Hatoyama |
Office not in use | 2010-2012 | 584 | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" | | Naoto Kan | |||
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Katsuya Okada 岡田 克也 Okada Katsuya (1953-) |
13 January 2012 | 26 December 2012 | 348 | style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background-color: Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color" | | Yoshihiko Noda |
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Tarō Asō 麻生 太郎 Asō Tarō (1940-) |
26 December 2012 | Incumbent | 4218 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color" | | Shinzō Abe |
References
- Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991, ISBN 4-7674-2015-6