Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)

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The Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a member of the cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The minister is responsible for implementing Japan's foreign policy and is also a statutory member of the National Security Council. The minister is nominated by the prime minister and is appointed by the emperor of Japan.

Since the end of the allied occupation of Japan, the position has been one of the most powerful in the cabinet, as Japan's economic interests have long relied on foreign relations. The recent efforts of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe to establish a more interventionist foreign policy have also heightened the importance of the position.

The current minister for foreign affairs is Toshimitsu Motegi, who took office on October 21, 2025. [1]

List of ministers for foreign affairs

  • Italics indicates subject served as Acting Foreign Minister.
  • Bold indicates subject served concurrently as Prime Minister for a period of time.

Empire of Japan (1885–1945)

# Portrait Name Took office Left office
1 File:Inoue Kaoru.jpg Count Inoue Kaoru December 1885 September 1887
– File:Itô Hirobumi.jpg Count Itō Hirobumi September 1887 February 1888
2 File:Ōkuma Shigenobu.jpg Count Ōkuma Shigenobu Script error: No such module "string". (1st) February 1888 December 1889
3 File:Aoki Shuzo.jpg Viscount Aoki Shūzō Script error: No such module "string". (1st) December 1889 May 1891
4 File:Enomoto Takeaki.jpg Viscount Enomoto Takeaki May 1891 August 1892
5 File:Mutsu Munemitsu.jpg Viscount Mutsu Munemitsu August 1892 May 1896
6 File:Kinmochi Saionji formal.jpg Marquis Saionji Kinmochi Script error: No such module "string". (1st) May 1896 September 1896
2 File:Ōkuma Shigenobu.jpg Count Ōkuma Shigenobu Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) September 1896 November 1897
7 File:Tokujiro Nishi.jpg Baron Nishi Tokujirō November 1897 January 1898
2 File:Ōkuma Shigenobu.jpg Count Ōkuma Shigenobu Script error: No such module "string". (3rd) January 1898 June 1898
3 File:Aoki Shuzo.jpg Viscount Aoki Shūzō Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) June 1898 October 1900
8 File:Takaaki Kato.jpg Katō Takaaki Script error: No such module "string". (1st) October 1900 June 1901
9 File:Sone Arasuke.jpg Sone Arasuke June 1901 September 1901
10 File:Portrait of Komura Jutaro.jpg Baron Komura Jutarō Script error: No such module "string". (1st) September 1901 January 1906
8 File:Takaaki Kato.jpg Katō Takaaki Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) January 1906 March 1906
6 File:Kinmochi Saionji formal.jpg Marquis Saionji Kinmochi Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) March 1906 May 1906
11 File:Tadasu Hayashi c1902.jpg Count Hayashi Tadasu May 1906 July 1908
12 File:Portrait of Masatake Terauchi.jpg General Viscount Terauchi Masatake Script error: No such module "string". (1st) July 1908 August 1908
10 File:Portrait of Komura Jutaro.jpg Marquis Komura Jutarō Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) August 1908 August 1911
13 File:Kosai Uchida.jpg Viscount Uchida Kosai Script error: No such module "string". (1st) August 1911 December 1912
14 File:11 KatsuraT.jpg Prince Katsura Tarō December 1912 January 1913
8 File:Takaaki Kato.jpg Baron Katō Takaaki Script error: No such module "string". (3rd) January 1913 February 1913
15 File:Count Nobuaki Makino.jpg Baron Makino Nobuaki February 1913 April 1914
8 File:Takaaki Kato.jpg Baron Katō Takaaki Script error: No such module "string". (4th) April 1914 August 1915
2 File:Shigenobu Okuma 5.jpg Count Ōkuma Shigenobu Script error: No such module "string". (4th) August 1915 October 1915
16 File:Kikujiro Ishii.jpg Viscount Ishii Kikujirō October 1915 October 1916
12 File:Portrait of Masatake Terauchi.jpg Marshal Count Terauchi Masatake Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) October 1916 November 1916
17 File:Ichirō Motono.jpg Viscount Motono Ichirō November 1916 April 1918
18 File:Shimpei Gotō.jpg Baron Gotō Shinpei April 1918 September 1918
13 File:Kosai Uchida.jpg Count Uchida Kosai Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) September 1918 2 September 1923
19 File:Yamamoto Gonnohyoe 2.jpg Admiral Count Yamamoto Gonnohyōe 2 September 1923 19 September 1923
20 File:Hikokichi Ijuin.jpg Baron Ijuin Hikokichi September 1923 January 1924
21 File:KeishiroMatsui.jpg Baron Matsui Keishirō January 1924 June 1924
22 File:Kijuro Shidehara 1930.jpg Baron Kijūrō Shidehara Script error: No such module "string". (1st) June 1924 April 1927
23 File:Tanaka Giichi.jpg Baron Tanaka Giichi April 1927 July 1929
22 File:Kijuro Shidehara 1930.jpg Baron Kijūrō Shidehara Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) July 1929 December 1931
24 File:Inukai Tsuyoshi.jpg Inukai Tsuyoshi December 1931 January 1932
25 File:Kenkichi Yoshizawa 1931.jpg Kenkichi Yoshizawa January 1932 May 1932
26 File:Makoto Saito 2.jpg Admiral Viscount Saitō Makoto May 1932 July 1932
13 File:Kosai Uchida.jpg Count Uchida Kosai Script error: No such module "string". (3rd) July 1932 September 1933
27 File:Kohki Hirota suit.jpg Kōki Hirota Script error: No such module "string". (1st) September 1933Template:Efn April 1936
28 File:Hachirō Arita 2.jpg Hachirō Arita Script error: No such module "string". (1st) April 1936 February 1937
29 File:Senjuro Hayashi suit.jpg Senjuro Hayashi February 1937 March 1937
30 File:Naotake Sato.jpg Naotake Satō March 1937 June 1937
27 File:Kohki Hirota suit.jpg Kōki Hirota Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) June 1937 May 1938
31 File:Kazushige Ugaki 2.jpg General Kazushige Ugaki May 1938 September 1938
32 File:Fumimaro Konoe.jpg Prince Fumimaro Konoe September 1938 October 1938
28 File:Hachirō Arita 2.jpg Hachirō Arita Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) October 1938 January 1939
33 File:Nobuyuki Abe formal.jpg General Nobuyuki Abe January 1939 August 1939
34 File:Kichisaburo Nomura 2.jpg Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura August 1939 January 1940
28 File:Hachirō Arita 2.jpg Hachirō Arita Script error: No such module "string". (3rd) January 1940 July 1940
35 File:Yōsuke Matsuoka.jpg Yōsuke Matsuoka July 1940 July 1941
36 File:Toyoda Teijirō.JPG Admiral Teijirō Toyoda July 1941 October 1941
37 File:Shigenori Togo.jpg Shigenori Tōgō Script error: No such module "string". (1st) October 1941 September 1942
38 File:Hideki Tojo.jpg General Hideki Tōjō 1 September 1942 17 September 1942
39 File:Masayuki Tani 1942 (cropped).jpg Masayuki Tani September 1942 April 1943
40 File:Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg Mamoru Shigemitsu Script error: No such module "string". (1st) April 1943 April 1945
41 File:Kantaro Suzuki suit cropped.jpg Admiral Baron Kantarō Suzuki April 1945 April 1945
37 File:Shigenori Togo.jpg Shigenori Tōgō Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) April 1945 August 1945
40 File:Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg Mamoru Shigemitsu Script error: No such module "string". (2nd) August 1945 September 1945

Postwar Japan (1945–present)

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Foreign Minister Term of office Prime Minister
# Portrait Name Took office Left office Days
43 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| File:Shigeru Yoshida smiling2.jpg Shigeru Yoshida September 15, 1945 May 24, 1947 Script error: No such module "age". Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Kijūrō Shidehara
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shigeru Yoshida
– style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:片山哲 (cropped).jpg Tetsu Katayama May 24, 1947 June 1, 1947 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Tetsu Katayama
44 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Hitoshi Ashida (cropped).jpg Hitoshi Ashida June 1, 1947 October 15, 1948 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hitoshi Ashida
(43) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Shigeru Yoshida smiling2.jpg Shigeru Yoshida October 15, 1948 April 30, 1952 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shigeru Yoshida
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45 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Katsuo Okazaki.jpg Katsuo Okazaki April 30, 1952 December 10, 1954 Script error: No such module "age".
(40) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg Mamoru Shigemitsu 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" |
– style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Tanzan Ishibashi portrait (cropped).jpg Tanzan Ishibashi December 23, 1956 December 23, 1956 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Tanzan Ishibashi
46 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Nobusuke Kishi portrait.jpg Nobusuke Kishi December 23, 1956 July 10, 1957 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Nobusuke Kishi
47 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:FUJIYAMA Aiichiro (cropped).jpg Aiichirō Fujiyama July 10, 1957 July 19, 1960 Script error: No such module "age".
48 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Zentaro Kosaka.jpg Zentaro Kosaka July 19, 1960 July 18, 1962 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Hayato Ikeda
49 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masayoshi Ohira 01.jpg Masayoshi Ōhira July 18, 1962 July 18, 1964 Script error: No such module "age".
50 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Etsuzaburo Shiina (cropped).jpg Shiina Etsusaburo July 18, 1964 December 3, 1966 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5| Eisaku Satō
51 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Takeo Miki Small.jpg Takeo Miki December 3, 1966 October 29, 1968 Script error: No such module "age".
– style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Eisaku Sato 19641109.jpg Eisaku Satō October 29, 1968 November 30, 1968 Script error: No such module "age".
52 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kiichi Aichi.jpg Kiichi Aichi November 30, 1968 July 9, 1971 Script error: No such module "age".
53 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Takeo Fukuda 19761224.jpg Takeo Fukuda July 9, 1971 July 7, 1972 Script error: No such module "age".
(49) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masayoshi Ohira 01.jpg Masayoshi Ōhira July 7, 1972 July 16, 1974 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kakuei Tanaka
54 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Toshio Kimura.jpg Toshio Kimura July 16, 1974 December 9, 1974 Script error: No such module "age".
55 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kiichi Miyazawa 19911105.jpg Kiichi Miyazawa December 9, 1974 September 5, 1976 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Takeo Miki
(48) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Zentaro Kosaka.jpg Zentaro Kosaka September 5, 1976 December 24, 1976 Script error: No such module "age".
56 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Iichirō Hatoyama (1953).jpg Iichirō Hatoyama December 24, 1976 November 28, 1977 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Takeo Fukuda
57 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Sunao Sonoda, Jul. 1979 (3).jpg Sunao Sonoda November 28, 1977 November 8, 1979 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Masayoshi Ōhira
58 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Saburō Ōkita on October 27, 1980.jpg Saburō Ōkita November 8, 1979 July 17, 1980 Script error: No such module "age".
59 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masayoshi Ito.jpg Masayoshi Ito July 17, 1980 May 18, 1981 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Zenkō Suzuki
(57) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Sunao Sonoda, Jul. 1979 (3).jpg Sunao Sonoda May 18, 1981 November 30, 1981 Script error: No such module "age".
60 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoshio Sakurauchi Scan10003.JPG Yoshio Sakurauchi November 30, 1981 November 27, 1982 Script error: No such module "age".
61 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Shintarō Abe 1982.jpg Shintaro Abe November 27, 1982 July 22, 1986 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Yasuhiro Nakasone
62 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Tadashi Kuranari 19861211 (cropped).jpg Tadashi Kuranari July 22, 1986 November 6, 1987 Script error: No such module "age".
63 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Sosuke Uno 198906.jpg Sosuke Uno November 6, 1987 June 3, 1989 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Noboru Takeshita
64 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hiroshi Mitsuzuka.jpg Hiroshi Mitsuzuka June 3, 1989 August 10, 1989 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Sosuke Uno
65 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Taro Nakayama 199103.jpg Taro Nakayama August 10, 1989 November 5, 1991 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Toshiki Kaifu
66 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Michio Watanabe 4,3.jpg Michio Watanabe November 5, 1991 April 7, 1993 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kiichi Miyazawa
67 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kabun Muto.jpg Kabun Mutō April 7, 1993 August 9, 1993 Script error: No such module "age".
68 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Tsutomu Hata 199404.jpg Tsutomu Hata August 9, 1993 April 28, 1994 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Morihiro Hosokawa
69 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Koji Kakizawa.jpg Koji Kakizawa April 28, 1994 June 30, 1994 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tsutomu Hata
70 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yohei Kono 1999.jpg Yōhei Kōno June 30, 1994 January 11, 1996 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tomiichi Murayama
71 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yukihiko Ikeda.png Yukihiko Ikeda January 11, 1996 September 11, 1997 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Ryutaro Hashimoto
72 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Keizo Obuchi 1998.jpg Keizo Obuchi September 11, 1997 July 30, 1998 Script error: No such module "age".
73 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masahiko Komura 1996.jpg Masahiko Kōmura July 30, 1998 October 5, 1999 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Keizo Obuchi
(70) style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Yohei Kono 1999.jpg Yōhei Kōno October 5, 1999 April 26, 2001 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshiro Mori
74 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Makiko Tanaka 2001.jpg Makiko Tanaka April 26, 2001 January 29, 2002 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5| Junichiro Koizumi
75 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Junichiro Koizumi 200104 2.jpg Junichiro Koizumi

(Acting)

January 29, 2002 February 1, 2002 Script error: No such module "age".
76 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoriko Kawaguchi 2001.jpg Yoriko Kawaguchi February 1, 2002 September 27, 2004 Script error: No such module "age".
77 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Nobutaka Machimura 2004.jpg Nobutaka Machimura September 27, 2004 October 31, 2005 Script error: No such module "age".
78 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Aso Taro profile.jpg Tarō Asō October 31, 2005 August 27, 2007 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Shinzō Abe
(77) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Nobutaka Machimura 2007 (MOFA).jpg Nobutaka Machimura August 27, 2007 September 26, 2007 Script error: No such module "age".
(73) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masahiko Komura 1996.jpg Masahiko Kōmura September 26, 2007 September 24, 2008 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yasuo Fukuda
79 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hirofumi Nakasone 2008.jpg Hirofumi Nakasone September 24, 2008 September 16, 2009 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tarō Asō
80 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Okada Katsuya Daijin 1.jpg Katsuya Okada September 16, 2009 September 17, 2010 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yukio Hatoyama
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4| Naoto Kan
81 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Seiji Maehara (Naoto Kan Cabinet).jpg Seiji Maehara September 17, 2010 March 7, 2011 Script error: No such module "age".
– style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yukio Edano 201210 (cropped 2).jpg Yukio Edano
(Acting) 		March 7, 2011 March 9, 2011 Script error: No such module "age".
82 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Takeaki Matsumoto 20110309.jpg Takeaki Matsumoto March 9, 2011 September 2, 2011 Script error: No such module "age".
83 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Koichiro Genba 20120720 (cropped).jpg Kōichirō Genba September 2, 2011 December 26, 2012 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshihiko Noda
84 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Fumio Kishida 20160202 (cropped 2).jpg Fumio Kishida December 26, 2012 August 3, 2017 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shinzō Abe
85 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Tarō Kōno 20110307.jpg Taro Kono August 3, 2017 September 11, 2019 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
86 rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Toshimitsu Motegi 20200916.jpg Toshimitsu Motegi September 11, 2019 November 4, 2021 Script error: No such module "age".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshihide Suga
(84) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Fumio Kishida 20211005 (cropped).jpg Fumio Kishida

(Acting)

November 4, 2021 November 10, 2021 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fumio Kishida
87 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoshimasa Hayashi 20211118 (cropped).jpg Yoshimasa Hayashi November 10, 2021 September 13, 2023 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
88 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Yoko Kamikawa 20230913 (cropped).jpg Yōko Kamikawa September 13, 2023 October 1, 2024 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
89 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Takeshi Iwaya 20241003 (cropped).jpg Takeshi Iwaya October 1, 2024 October 21, 2025 Script error: No such module "age". style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shigeru Ishiba
(86) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Toshimitsu Motegi 2024 (cropped).jpg Toshimitsu Motegi 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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References

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External links

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