Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
Deputy Prime Minister
副総理 | |
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Style | Mr. Deputy Prime Minister His Excellency |
Member of | Cabinet National Security Council |
Appointer | The Prime Minister attested to by the Emperor |
Term length | No fixed term |
Inaugural holder | Kijūrō Shidehara |
Formation | 3 May 1947 |
Succession | First |
Salary | ¥20,916,000 |
The Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (副総理, Fuku-sōri) is the second highest ranking officer of the executive branch of the government of Japan after the Prime Minister of Japan, and ranks first in the line of succession to the Acting Prime Minister. The office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not a permanent position, existing only at the discretion of the Prime Minister.
The Deputy Prime Minister is appointed by the Prime Minister and must be a member of the cabinet, for instance the incumbent Taro Aso serves as Minister of Finance concurrently. Unlike the Vice President of the United States, the Deputy Prime Minister does not automatically become the Prime Minister, should the latter be incapacitated or resign, but instead exercises the duties of the Prime Minister until the National Diet elects a successor. However, when Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi resigned in 1957, then Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi (grandfather of Shinzo Abe and Nobuo Kishi) took the office of Acting Prime Minister, and was officially elected by the National Diet a month later.
The current Deputy Prime Minister is Tarō Asō, who took office on 26 December, 2012, making him the longest serving Deputy Prime Minister.
List of deputy prime ministers of Japan[]
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Deputy Prime Minister | Term of office | Prime Minister | |||||
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Portrait | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Days | |||
Kijūrō Shidehara 幣原 喜重郎 Shidehara Kijūrō (1872–1951) |
3 May 1947 | 24 May 1947 | 21 | Shigeru Yoshida | |||
Office not in use | 1947 | 8 | Tetsu Katayama | ||||
Hitoshi Ashida 芦田 均 Ashida Hitoshi (1887–1959) |
1 June 1947 | 10 March 1948 | 283 | ||||
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 | |||||
林 譲治 Hayashi Jōji (1889–1960) |
19 October 1948 | 13 March 1951 | 875 | Shigeru Yoshida | |||
Office not in use | 1951–1952 | 626 | |||||
Taketora Ogata 緒方 竹虎 Ogata Taketora (1888–1956) |
28 November 1952 | 10 December 1954 | 742 | ||||
Mamoru Shigemitsu 重光 葵 Shigemitsu Mamoru (1887–1957) |
10 December 1954 | 23 December 1956 | 744 | Ichirō Hatoyama | |||
Office not in use | 1956–1957 | 148 | Tanzan Ishibashi | ||||
石井 光次郎 Ishii Mitsujirō (1889–1981) |
20 May 1957 | 12 June 1958 | 388 | Nobusuke Kishi | |||
Office not in use | 1958–1959 | 371 | |||||
益谷 秀次 Masutani Shūji (1888–1978) |
18 June 1959 | 19 July 1960 | 397 | ||||
Office not in use | 1960–1972 | 4424 | Hayato Ikeda | ||||
Eisaku Satō | |||||||
Takeo Miki 三木 武夫 Miki Takeo (1907–1988) |
29 August 1972 | 12 July 1974 | 682 | Kakuei Tanaka | |||
Office not in use | 1974 | 150 | |||||
Takeo Fukuda 福田 赳夫 Fukuda Takeo (1905–1995) |
9 December 1974 | 6 November 1976 | 698 | Takeo Miki | |||
Office not in use | 1976–1980 | 1313 | |||||
Takeo Fukuda | |||||||
Masayoshi Ito 伊東 正義 Itō Masayoshi (1913–1994) |
11 June 1980 | 17 July 1980 | 36 | Masayoshi Ōhira | |||
Office not in use | 1980–1986 | 2196 | Zenkō Suzuki | ||||
Shin Kanemaru 金丸 信 Kanemaru Shin (1914–1996) |
22 July 1986 | 6 November 1987 | 472 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | |||
Kiichi Miyazawa 宮澤 喜一 Miyazawa Kiichi (1919–2007) |
6 November 1987 | 9 December 1988 | 399 | Noboru Takeshita | |||
Office not in use | 1988–1991 | 1061 | |||||
Sōsuke Uno | |||||||
Toshiki Kaifu | |||||||
Michio Watanabe 渡辺 美智雄 Watanabe Michio (1923–1995) |
5 November 1991 | 7 April 1993 | 519 | Kiichi Miyazawa | |||
Masaharu Gotōda 後藤田 正晴 Gotōda Masaharu (1914–2005) |
8 April 1993 | 9 August 1993 | 123 | ||||
Tsutomu Hata 羽田 孜 Hata Tsutomu (1935–2017) |
9 August 1993 | 28 April 1994 | 262 | Morihiro Hosokawa | |||
Office not in use | 1994 | 63 | Tsutomu Hata | ||||
Yōhei Kōno 河野 洋平 Kōno Yōhei (1937–) |
30 June 1994 | 2 October 1995 | 459 | Tomiichi Murayama | |||
Ryutaro Hashimoto 橋本 龍太郎 Hashimoto Ryūtarō (1937–2006) |
2 October 1995 | 11 January 1996 | 101 | ||||
Wataru Kubo 久保 亘 Kubo Wataru (1929–2004) |
11 January 1996 | 7 November 1996 | 301 | Ryutaro Hashimoto | |||
Office not in use | 1996–2009 | 4696 | |||||
Keizō Obuchi | |||||||
Yoshirō Mori | |||||||
Junichiro Koizumi | |||||||
Shinzō Abe | |||||||
Yasuo Fukuda | |||||||
Tarō Asō | |||||||
Naoto Kan 菅 直人 Kan Naoto (1946–) |
16 September 2009 | 8 June 2010 | 265 | Yukio Hatoyama | |||
Office not in use | 2010–2012 | 584 | Naoto Kan | ||||
Katsuya Okada 岡田 克也 Okada Katsuya (1953–) |
13 January 2012 | 26 December 2012 | 348 | Yoshihiko Noda | |||
Tarō Asō 麻生 太郎 Asō Tarō (1940–) |
26 December 2012 | Incumbent | 3191 | Shinzō Abe | |||
Yoshihide Suga |
References[]
- Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991, ISBN 4-7674-2015-6
- Politics of Japan
- Deputy Prime Ministers of Japan