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Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)

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The Minister for Foreign Affairs (外務大臣, Gaimu Daijin) of Japan is the Cabinet member responsible for Japanese foreign policy and the chief executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since the end of the American occupation of Japan, the position has been one of the most powerful in the Cabinet, as Japan's economic interests have long relied on external relations. The recent efforts of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to establish a more interventionist foreign policy have also heightened the importance of the position.

The position is currently held by Fumio Kishida.

List of ministers

  • Italics indicates subject served as Acting Foreign Minister.
  • Bold indicates subject served concurrently as Prime Minister for a period of time.
# Image Name Took office Left office
1 Inoue Kaoru 1885 1887
– Itō Hirobumi 1887 1888
2 Ōkuma Shigenobu
(1st)		 1888 1889
3 Aoki Shūzō
(1st)		 1889 1891
4 Enomoto Takeaki 1891 1892
5 Mutsu Munemitsu 1892 1896
6 Saionji Kinmochi
(1st)		 1896 1896
2 Ōkuma Shigenobu
(2nd)		 1896 1897
7 Nishi Tokujirō 1897 1898
2 Ōkuma Shigenobu
(3rd)		 1898 1898
3 Aoki Shūzō
(2nd)		 1898 1900
8 Katō Takaaki
(1st)		 1900 1901
9 Sone Arasuke 1901 1901
10 Komura Jutarō
(1st)		 1901 1906
8 Katō Takaaki
(2nd)		 1906 1906
6 Saionji Kinmochi
(2nd)		 1906 1906
11 Hayashi Tadasu 1906 1908
12 Terauchi Masatake
(1st)		 1908 1908
10 Komura Jutarō
(2nd)		 1908 1911
13 Uchida Kosai
(1st)		 1911 1912
14 Katsura Tarō 1912 1913
8 Katō Takaaki
(2nd)		 1913 1913
15 Makino Nobuaki 1913 1914
8 Katō Takaaki
(3rd)		 1914 1915
2 Ōkuma Shigenobu
(4th)		 1915 1915
16 Ishii Kikujirō 1915 1916
12 Terauchi Masatake
(2nd)		 1916 1916
17 Motono Ichirō 1916 1918
18 Gotō Shinpei 1918 1918
13 Uchida Kosai
(2nd)		 1918 1923
19 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe 1923 1923
20 Ijuin Hikokichi 1923 1924
21 Matsui Keishirō 1924 1924
22 Kijūrō Shidehara
(1st)		 1924 1927
23 Tanaka Giichi 1927 1929
22 Kijūrō Shidehara
(2nd)		 1929 1931
24 Inukai Tsuyoshi 1931 1932
25 Kenkichi Yoshizawa 1932 1932
26 Saitō Makoto 1932 1932
13 Uchida Kosai
(3rd)		 1932 1933
27 Kōki Hirota
(1st)		 1933 1936
28 Hachirō Arita
(1st)		 1936 1937
29 Senjuro Hayashi 1937 1937
30 Naotake Satō 1937 1937
27 Kōki Hirota
(2nd)		 1937 1938
31 Kazushige Ugaki 1938 1938
32 Fumimaro Konoe 1938 1938
28 Hachirō Arita
(2nd)		 1938 1939
33 Nobuyuki Abe 1939 1939
34 Kichisaburō Nomura 1939 1940
28 Hachirō Arita
(3rd)		 1940 1940
35 Yōsuke Matsuoka 1940 1941
36 Teijirō Toyoda 1941 1941
37 Shigenori Tōgō
(1st)		 1941 1942
38 Hideki Tōjō 1942 1942
39 Masayuki Tani 1942 1943
40 Mamoru Shigemitsu
(1st)		 1943 1945
41 Kantarō Suzuki 1945 1945
37 Shigenori Tōgō
(2nd)		 1945 1945
40 Mamoru Shigemitsu
(2nd)		 1945 1945
43 Shigeru Yoshida
(1st)		 1945 1947
– Tetsu Katayama 1947 1947
44 Hitoshi Ashida 1947 1948
43 Shigeru Yoshida
(2nd)		 1948 1952
45 Katsuo Okazaki 1952 1954
40 Mamoru Shigemitsu
(3rd)		 1954 1956
– Tanzan Ishibashi 1956 1956
46 Nobusuke Kishi 1956 1957
47 Aiichiro Fujiyama 1957 1960
48 Zentaro Kosaka
(1st)		 1960 1962
49 Masayoshi Ōhira
(1st)		 1962 1964
50 Shiina Etsusaburo 1964 1966
51 Takeo Miki 1966 1968
– Eisaku Satō 1968 1968
52 Kiichi Aichi 1968 1971
53 Takeo Fukuda 1971 1972
49 Masayoshi Ōhira
(2nd)		 1972 1974
54 Toshio Kimura 1974 1974
55 Kiichi Miyazawa 1974 1976
48 Zentaro Kosaka
(2nd)		 1976 1976
56 Iichirō Hatoyama 1976 1977
57 Sunao Sonoda
(1st)		 1977 1979
58 Saburo Okita 1979 1980
59 Masayoshi Ito 1980 1981
57 Sunao Sonoda
(2nd)		 1981 1981
60 Yoshio Sakurauchi 1981 1982
61 Shintaro Abe 1982 1986
62 Tadashi Kuranari 1986 1987
63 Sōsuke Uno 1987 1989
64 Hiroshi Mitsuzuka 1989 1989
65 Taro Nakayama 1989 1991
66 Michio Watanabe 1991 1993
67 Kabun Muto 1993 1993
68 Tsutomu Hata 1993 1994
69 Koji Kakizawa 1994 1994
70 Yohei Kono
(1st)		 1994 1996
71 Yukihiko Ikeda 1996 1997
72 Keizō Obuchi 1997 1998
73 Masahiko Kōmura
(1st)		 1998 1999
70 Yohei Kono
(2nd)		 1999 2001
74 Makiko Tanaka 2001 2002
75 Junichiro Koizumi 2002 2002
76 Yoriko Kawaguchi 2002 2004
77 Nobutaka Machimura
(1st)		 2004 2005
78 Tarō Asō 2005 2007
77 Nobutaka Machimura
(2nd)		 2007 2007
73 Masahiko Kōmura
(2nd)		 2007 2008
79 Hirofumi Nakasone 2008 2009
80 Katsuya Okada 2009 2010
81 Seiji Maehara 2010 2011
– Yukio Edano (acting) 2011 2011
82 Takeaki Matsumoto 2011 2011
83 Kōichirō Genba 2011 2012
84 Fumio Kishida 2012 Present

See also

References

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