Chief Cabinet Secretary

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History

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 Script error: No such module "Nihongo".. 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.[4]

The current chief cabinet secretary is Minoru Kihara, who took office on October 21, 2025.

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The Cabinet Office Building is where the Cabinet Secretariat resides.

List of secretaries-general of the cabinet

Shōwa era

  • Seiji Tsukamoto (December 25, 1926 – April 20, 1927)
  • Ichirō Hatoyama (April 20, 1927 – July 2, 1929) - later became prime minister in the mid-1950s.
  • Fujiya Suzuki (July 2, 1929 – April 14, 1931)
  • Takukichi Kawasaki (April 14, 1931 – December 13, 1931)
  • 4 other holders (December 13, 1931 – October 19, 1934)
  • Shigeru Yoshida (October 20, 1934 – May 11, 1935) - not to be confused with PM Shigeru Yoshida.
  • Takekai Shirane (May 12, 1935 – March 9, 1936)
  • 2 other holders (March 9, 1936 – June 4, 1937)
  • Akira Kazami (June 4, 1937 – January 4, 1939)
  • Harumichi Tanabe (January 4, 1939 – April 7, 1939)
  • 3 other holders (April 7, 1939 – July 22, 1940)
  • Kenji Tomita (July 22, 1940 – October 18, 1941)
  • Naoki Hoshino (October 18, 1941 – July 22, 1944)
  • 4 other holders (July 22, 1944 – 7 April 1945)
  • Hisatsune Sakomizu (April 7, 1945 – August 15, 1945)
  • Taketora Ogata (August, 15 1945 – October 5, 1945)
  • Daizaburō Tsugita (October 9, 1945 – January 13, 1946)
  • Wataru Narahashi (January 13, 1946 – May 22, 1946)
  • Jōji Hayashi (May 22, 1946 – May 2, 1947)

List of chief cabinet secretaries

Shōwa era

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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Joji hayashi.jpg Jōji Hayashi May 3, 1947 May 24, 1947 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shigeru Yoshida
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Suehiro nishio.jpg Suehiro Nishio June 1, 1947 March 10, 1948 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tetsu Katayama
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:TOMABECHI Gizo.jpg Gizō Tomabechi March 10, 1948 October 15, 1948 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hitoshi Ashida
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Eisaku Sato.jpg Eisaku SatōTemplate:Refn October 17, 1948 February 16, 1949 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Shigeru Yoshida
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Kaneshichi Masuda February 16, 1949 May 6, 1950 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Katsuo Okazaki.jpg Katsuo Okazaki May 6, 1950 December 26, 1951 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4|
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hori Shigeru.JPG Shigeru Hori December 26, 1951 October 30, 1952 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Taketora Ogata 2.jpg Taketora Ogata October 30, 1952 May 21, 1953 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kenji Fukunaga 01.jpg Kenji Fukunaga May 21, 1953 December 10, 1954 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Ryutarō Nemoto December 10, 1954 November 22, 1955 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ichirō Hatoyama
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | November 22, 1955 December 23, 1956 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hirohide Ishida.jpg Hirohide Ishida December 12, 1956 July 10, 1957 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Tanzan Ishibashi
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4| Nobusuke Kishi
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kiichi Aichi.jpg Kiichi Aichi July 10, 1957 June 12, 1958 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Munenori Akagi June 12, 1958 June 18, 1959 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:SHIINA Etsusaburo.jpg Etsusaburō Shiina June 18, 1959 July 19, 1960 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masayoshi Ohira.jpg Masayoshi ŌhiraTemplate:Refn July 19, 1960 July 18, 1962 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Hayato Ikeda
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Yasumi Kurogane July 18, 1962 July 18, 1964 Script error: No such module "age".
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Tomisaburō Hashimoto November 9, 1964 August 1, 1966 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=6| Eisaku Satō
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kiichi Aichi.jpg Kiichi Aichi August 1, 1966 December 3, 1966 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kenji Fukunaga 01.jpg Kenji Fukunaga December 3, 1966 June 22, 1967 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Toshio Kimura.jpg Toshio Kimura June 22, 1967 November 30, 1968 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hori Shigeru.JPG Shigeru Hori November 30, 1968 July 5, 1971 Script error: No such module "age".
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Susumu Nikaido 1966.jpg Susumu Nikaidō July 7, 1972 November 11, 1974 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kakuei Tanaka
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Ichitarō Ide December 9, 1974 December 24, 1976 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Takeo Miki
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Sunao Sonoda, Jul. 1979 (3).jpg Sunao Sonoda December 24, 1976 November 28, 1977 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Takeo Fukuda
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Rokusuke Tanaka December 7, 1978 November 9, 1979 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Masayoshi Ōhira
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masayoshi Ito.jpg Masayoshi ItoTemplate:Refn November 9, 1979 July 17, 1980 Script error: No such module "age".
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kiichi Miyazawa.jpg Kiichi MiyazawaTemplate:Refn July 17, 1980 November 27, 1982 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Zenkō Suzuki
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Masaharu Gotōda November 27, 1982 December 27, 1983 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Yasuhiro Nakasone
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Masaharu Gotōda December 28, 1985 November 6, 1987 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Keizo Obuchi 19980730.jpg Keizō ObuchiTemplate:Refn November 6, 1987 January 7, 1989 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Noboru Takeshita

Heisei era

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Portrait Name Took office Left office Days
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Keizo Obuchi 19980730.jpg Keizō ObuchiTemplate:Refn January 8, 1989 June 3, 1989 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Noboru Takeshita
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masajuro Shiokawa cropped 2 Finance Ministers of G7 20030412.jpg Masajuro Shiokawa June 3, 1989 August 10, 1989 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Sōsuke Uno
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Goshichi no kiri.svg Tokuo Yamashita August 10, 1989 August 26, 1989 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Toshiki Kaifu
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Mayumi Moriyama.jpg Mayumi Moriyama August 26, 1989 February 28, 1990 Script error: No such module "age".
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Koichi Kato 1985 (cropped).jpg Koichi Kato November 5, 1991 December 12, 1992 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kiichi Miyazawa
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yōhei Kōno.jpg Yōhei Kōno December 12, 1992 August 9, 1993 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masayoshi Takemura Tomiichi Murayama Cabinet 19950808.jpg Masayoshi Takemura August 9, 1993 April 28, 1994 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Morihiro Hosokawa
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kozo Igarashi 199310.jpg Kozo Igarashi June 30, 1994 August 8, 1995 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Tomiichi Murayama
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Koken Nosaka 19940630.jpg Koken Nosaka August 8, 1995 January 11, 1996 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Seiroku Kajiyama.jpg Seiroku Kajiyama January 11, 1996 September 11, 1997 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Ryutaro Hashimoto
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hiromu Nonaka 199807.jpg Hiromu Nonaka July 30, 1998 October 10, 1999 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Keizo Obuchi
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Mikio Aoki.jpg Mikio Aoki October 10, 1999 July 4, 2000 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Yoshiro Mori
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Junichiro Koizumi
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hiroyuki Hosoda in New Delhi on 23 September 2016.jpg Hiroyuki Hosoda May 7, 2004 October 31, 2005 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Abe Shinzo.jpg Shinzo AbeTemplate:Refn October 31, 2005 September 26, 2006 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yasuhisa Shiozaki cropped 2 Caroline Kennedy Penny Pritzker and Yasuhisa Shiozaki 20141020.jpg Yasuhisa Shiozaki September 26, 2006 August 27, 2007 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Shinzo Abe
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Machimura Nobutaka 2015.jpg Nobutaka Machimura September 26, 2007 September 24, 2008 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yasuo Fukuda
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Takeo Kawamura.jpg Takeo Kawamura September 24, 2008 September 16, 2009 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Taro Aso
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hirofumi Hirano in Kadena Air Base cropped.png Hirofumi Hirano September 16, 2009 June 8, 2010 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yukio Hatoyama
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoshito Sengoku - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2010.jpg Yoshito Sengoku June 8, 2010 January 4, 2011 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Naoto Kan
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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Osamu Fujimura.jpg Osamu Fujimura September 2, 2011 December 26, 2012 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshihiko Noda
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoshihide Suga 20200916.jpg Yoshihide SugaTemplate:Refn December 26, 2012 April 30, 2019 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shinzo Abe

Reiwa era

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style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoshihide Suga 20200916.jpg Yoshihide SugaTemplate:Refn May 1, 2019 September 16, 2020 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Shinzo Abe
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Katsunobu Katō.jpg Katsunobu Katō September 16, 2020 October 4, 2021 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshihide Suga
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hirokazu Matsuno 20211004.jpg Hirokazu Matsuno October 4, 2021 December 14, 2023 Script error: No such module "age". rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fumio Kishida
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color"| File:Yoshimasa Hayashi 20231222.jpg Yoshimasa Hayashi December 14, 2023 October 1, 2024 Script error: No such module "age".
October 1, 2024 October 21, 2025 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shigeru Ishiba
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Minoru Kihara 20230914.jpg Minoru Kihara October 21, 2025 Incumbent Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Sanae Takaichi

See also

Notes

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  1. ↑ Cabinet Law, Article 13.
  2. ↑ Cabinet Law, Article 12, Paragraph 2, Item 4 and 5
  3. ↑ Cabinet Law, Article 15
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