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Head of the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan

The chief cabinet secretary of Japan (内閣官房長官, Naikaku-kanbō-chōkan) is a member of the cabinet and is the leader and chief executive of the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan.[1] The chief cabinet secretary coordinates the policies of ministries and agencies in the executive branch,[2] and also serves as the government's press secretary. The secretary is a statutory member of the National Security Council, and is appointed by the emperor upon the nomination by the prime minister.[3] The chief cabinet secretary is the second in line of succession to the prime minister, and 1st if the office of the deputy prime minister is unoccupied.[4]

In March 1879, the precursor of the position, the Secretary-General of the Cabinet, was created. From 1885, it was included as part of the cabinet system, and the position was known in Japanese as 内閣書記官長 (naikaku-shokikan-chō). The modern position was created on May 3, 1947, shortly after the passage of the Constitution of Japan, and elevated to ministerial status in 1966.

Since 1947, the office of Chief Cabinet Secretary has been regarded as a stepping stone to the post of Prime Minister. The first chief cabinet secretary to become Prime Minister was Ichirō Hatoyama, who served in the position under Tanaka Giichi. Since then, eight other former chief cabinet secretaries have become prime ministers, most recently Shinzō Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, and Yoshihide Suga.

Yoshihide Suga, who later became Prime Minister of Japan, served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Shinzo Abe for nearly eight years, making him the longest-serving chief cabinet secretary in history, having overtaken the previous record of 1,289 days in office set by Fukuda on July 7, 2016.[5]

The current chief cabinet secretary is Yoshimasa Hayashi, who took office on December 14, 2023.

The Cabinet Office Building is where the Cabinet Secretariat resides. List of secretaries-general of the cabinet[edit] List of chief cabinet secretaries[edit]

  Liberal (1945)
  Socialist
  Democratic (1947)
  Democratic Liberal
  Liberal (1950)
  Democratic (1954)
  Liberal Democratic

Chief Cabinet Secretary Term of office Prime Minister Portrait Name Took office Left office Days Jōji Hayashi May 3, 1947 May 24, 1947 21 Shigeru Yoshida Suehiro Nishio June 1, 1947 March 10, 1948 283 Tetsu Katayama Gizō Tomabechi March 10, 1948 October 15, 1948 219 Hitoshi Ashida Eisaku Satō[n 1] October 17, 1948 February 16, 1949 122 Shigeru Yoshida Kaneshichi Masuda February 16, 1949 May 6, 1950 444 Katsuo Okazaki May 6, 1950 December 26, 1951 599 Shigeru Hori December 26, 1951 October 30, 1952 309 Taketora Ogata October 30, 1952 May 21, 1953 203 Kenji Fukunaga May 21, 1953 December 10, 1954 568 Ryutarō Nemoto December 10, 1954 November 22, 1955 744 Ichirō Hatoyama November 22, 1955 December 23, 1956 Hirohide Ishida December 12, 1956 July 10, 1957 210 Tanzan Ishibashi Nobusuke Kishi Kiichi Aichi July 10, 1957 June 12, 1958 337 Munenori Akagi June 12, 1958 June 18, 1959 371 Etsusaburō Shiina June 18, 1959 July 19, 1960 397 Masayoshi Ōhira[n 2] July 19, 1960 July 18, 1962 729 Hayato Ikeda Yasumi Kurogane July 18, 1962 July 18, 1964 731 Zenkō Suzuki[n 3] July 18, 1964 November 9, 1964 114 Tomisaburō Hashimoto November 9, 1964 August 1, 1966 630 Eisaku Satō Kiichi Aichi August 1, 1966 December 3, 1966 124 Kenji Fukunaga December 3, 1966 June 22, 1967 201 Toshio Kimura June 22, 1967 November 30, 1968 527 Shigeru Hori November 30, 1968 July 5, 1971 947 Noboru Takeshita[n 4] July 5, 1971 July 7, 1972 368 Susumu Nikaidō July 7, 1972 November 11, 1974 857 Kakuei Tanaka Noboru Takeshita[n 4] November 11, 1974 December 9, 1974 28 Ichitarō Ide December 9, 1974 December 24, 1976 746 Takeo Miki Sunao Sonoda December 24, 1976 November 28, 1977 339 Takeo Fukuda Shintaro Abe November 28, 1977 December 7, 1978 374 Rokusuke Tanaka December 7, 1978 November 9, 1979 337 Masayoshi Ōhira Masayoshi Ito[n 5] November 9, 1979 July 17, 1980 251 Himself (Acting) Kiichi Miyazawa[n 6] July 17, 1980 November 27, 1982 863 Zenkō Suzuki Masaharu Gotōda November 27, 1982 December 27, 1983 395 Yasuhiro Nakasone Takao Fujinami December 27, 1983 December 28, 1985 732 Masaharu Gotōda December 28, 1985 November 6, 1987 678 Keizō Obuchi[n 7] November 6, 1987 January 7, 1989 428 Noboru Takeshita

  Liberal Democratic
  Japan New Party
  New Party Sakigake
  Japan Renewal Party
  Socialist
  Democratic

Chief Cabinet Secretary Term of office Prime Minister Portrait Name Took office Left office Days Keizō Obuchi[n 7] January 8, 1989 June 3, 1989 147 Noboru Takeshita Masajuro Shiokawa June 3, 1989 August 10, 1989 68 Sōsuke Uno Tokuo Yamashita August 10, 1989 August 26, 1989 16 Toshiki Kaifu Mayumi Moriyama August 26, 1989 February 28, 1990 186 Misoji Sakamoto [ja] February 28, 1990 November 5, 1991 615 Koichi Kato November 5, 1991 December 12, 1992 403 Kiichi Miyazawa Yōhei Kōno December 12, 1992 August 9, 1993 240 Masayoshi Takemura August 9, 1993 April 28, 1994 262 Morihiro Hosokawa Hiroshi Kumagai [ja] April 28, 1994 June 30, 1994 63 Tsutomu Hata Kozo Igarashi June 30, 1994 August 8, 1995 404 Tomiichi Murayama Koken Nosaka August 8, 1995 January 11, 1996 156 Seiroku Kajiyama January 11, 1996 September 11, 1997 609 Ryutaro Hashimoto Kanezo Muraoka [ja] September 11, 1997 July 30, 1998 322 Hiromu Nonaka July 30, 1998 October 10, 1999 432 Keizo Obuchi Mikio Aoki October 10, 1999 July 4, 2000 273 Yoshiro Mori Hidenao Nakagawa July 4, 2000 October 27, 2000 115 Yasuo Fukuda[n 8] October 27, 2000 May 7, 2004 1380 Junichiro Koizumi Hiroyuki Hosoda May 7, 2004 October 31, 2005 450 Shinzo Abe[n 9] October 31, 2005 September 26, 2006 330 Yasuhisa Shiozaki September 26, 2006 August 27, 2007 335 Shinzo Abe Kaoru Yosano August 27, 2007 September 26, 2007 30 Nobutaka Machimura September 26, 2007 September 24, 2008 364 Yasuo Fukuda Takeo Kawamura September 24, 2008 September 16, 2009 357 Taro Aso Hirofumi Hirano September 16, 2009 June 8, 2010 265 Yukio Hatoyama Yoshito Sengoku June 8, 2010 January 4, 2011 210 Naoto Kan Yukio Edano January 4, 2011 September 2, 2011 241 Osamu Fujimura September 2, 2011 December 26, 2012 481 Yoshihiko Noda Yoshihide Suga[n 10] December 26, 2012 April 30, 2019 2316 Shinzo Abe

  Liberal Democratic

  1. ^ Later served as Prime Minister 1964-72
  2. ^ Later served as Prime Minister 1978-80
  3. ^ Later served as Prime Minister 1980-82
  4. ^ a b Later served as Prime Minister 1987-89
  5. ^ Served as Acting Prime Minister on the death of Ōhira, 12 June - 17 July 1980
  6. ^ Later served as Prime Minister 1991-93
  7. ^ a b Later served as Prime Minister 1998-2000
  8. ^ Later served as Prime Minister 2007-08.
  9. ^ Later served as Prime Minister 2006-07, 2012-20
  10. ^ a b Later served as Prime Minister 2020-21

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