List of Speakers of the House of Representatives (Japan)

This is a list of Speakers (gichō) and Vice-Speakers (fuku-gichō) of the House of Representatives.

Note: Many House Speakers and Vice-Speakers, including most in recent decades, leave their parliamentary party during their tenure and formally become independents (but retain membership of the wider party).

Speakers

The official residence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Shūgiin gichō kōtei) in Nagatachō, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo is mainly used for receptions of state guests and other official occasions. The residence of the vice-speaker is located in Akasaka in Minato ward, Tokyo.

#	Name	Party	Entered office	Left office (+reason if not end of term)
Empire of Japan
1	Nobuyuki Nakajima	Rikken Jiyūtō	November 26, 1890	December 25, 1891 (dissolution)
2	Tōru Hoshi	Jiyūtō	May 3, 1892	December 13, 1893 (expulsion)
3	Masataka Kusumoto	Dōmei Club	December 15, 1893	December 30, 1893 (dissolution)
4	Masataka Kusumoto	Rikken Kakushintō	May 12, 1894	June 2, 1894 (dissolution)
5	Masataka Kusumoto	Rikken Kakushintō	October 15, 1894	June 8, 1896 (resignation)
6	Kazuo Hatoyama	Shinpotō	December 22, 1896	December 25, 1897 (dissolution)
7	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	May 15, 1898	June 10, 1898 (dissolution)
8	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	November 9, 1898	December 7, 1902
9	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 7, 1902	December 28, 1902 (dissolution)
10	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	May 9, 1903	October 31, 1903 (death)
11	Hironaka Kōno	Kenseitō	December 5, 1903	December 11, 1903 (dissolution)
12	Masahisa Matsuda	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 18, 1904	January 19, 1906 (resignation)
13	Teiichi Sugita	Rikken Seiyūkai	January 23, 1906	December 23, 1908
14	Sumitaka Haseba	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 23, 1908	September 6, 1911 (resignation)
15	Ikuzō Ōoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 24, 1911	August 21, 1912
16	Ikuzō Ōoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	August 21, 1912	March 6, 1914 (resignation)
17	Sumitaka Haseba	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 7, 1914	March 15, 1914 (death)
18	Shigesaburō Oku	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 17, 1914	December 25, 1914 (dissolution)
19	Saburō Shimada	Rikken Dōshikai	May 17, 1915	January 25, 1917 (dissolution)
20	Ikuzō Ōoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	June 21, 1917	February 26, 1920 (dissolution)
21	Shigesaburō Oku	Rikken Seiyūkai	June 26, 1920	February 16, 1923 (resignation)
22	Gizō Kasuya	Rikken Seiyūkai	February 17, 1923	January 31, 1924 (dissolution)
23	Gizō Kasuya	Rikken Seiyūkai → Ind.	June 26, 1924	March 25, 1927 (resignation)
24	Shigeru Morita	Kenseikai	March 26, 1927	January 21, 1928 (dissolution)
25	Hajime Motoda	Rikken Seiyūkai	April 20, 1928	March 14, 1929 (resignation)
26	Mosuke Kawahara	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 15, 1929	May 15, 1929 (death)
27	Zenbē Horikiri	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 26, 1929	January 21, 1930 (dissolution)
28	Ikunosuke Fujisawa	Rikken Minseitō	April 23, 1930	April 13, 1931 (resignation)
29	Kejirō Nakamura	Rikken Minseitō	December 26, 1931	January 21, 1932 (dissolution)
30	Kiyoshi Akita	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 18, 1932	December 13, 1932 (resignation)
31	Kunimatsu Hamada	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 24, 1934	January 21, 1936 (dissolution)
32	Kōjirō Tomita	Rikken Minseitō	May 1, 1936	March 31, 1937 (dissolution)
33	Shōju Koyama	Rikken Minseitō → Yokusan Giin Dōmei	July 23, 1937	December 22, 1941 (resignation)
34	Kazutami Tago	Yokusan Giin Dōmei → Yokusan Seijikai	December 24, 1941	May 25, 1942
35	Tadahiko Okada	Yokusan Seijikai	May 25, 1942	April 9, 1945 (resignation)
36	Toshio Shimada	Dainihon Seijikai → JPP	June 8, 1945	December 18, 1945 (dissolution)
37	Senzō Higai	JLP	May 22, 1946	August 23, 1946 (resignation)
38	Takeshi Yamazaki	JLP → Ind.	August 23, 1946	March 31, 1947 (dissolution)
State of Japan
39	Komakichi Matsuoka	JSP → JSP (right wing)	May 21, 1947	December 23, 1948 (dissolution)
40	Kijūrō Shidehara	LP	February 11, 1949	March 10, 1951 (death)
41	Jōji Hayashi	LP	March 13, 1951	August 1, 1952 (resignation)
42	Banboku Ōno	LP	August 26, 1952	August 28, 1952 (dissolution)
43	Banboku Ōno	LP	October 24, 1952	March 14, 1953 (dissolution)
44	Yasujirō Tsutsumi	PP	May 18, 1953	December 10, 1954 (resignation)
45	Tō Matsunaga	JDP	December 11, 1954	January 24, 1955 (dissolution)
46	Shūji Masutani	LDP	March 18, 1955	April 25, 1958 (dissolution)
47	Nirō Hoshijima	LDP	June 11, 1958	December 13, 1958 (resignation)
48	Ryōgorō Katō	LDP	December 13, 1958	February 1, 1960 (resignation)
49	Ichirō Kiyose	LDP	February 1, 1960	October 24, 1960 (dissolution)
50	Ichirō Kiyose	LDP	December 7, 1960	October 23, 1963 (dissolution)
51	Naka Funada	LDP	December 7, 1963	December 20, 1965 (resignation)
52	Kikuichirō Yamaguchi	LDP	December 20, 1965	December 3, 1966 (resignation)
53	Kentarō Ayabe	LDP	December 3, 1966	December 27, 1966 (dissolution)
54	Mitsujirō Ishii	LDP	February 15, 1967	July 16, 1969 (resignation)
55	Takechiyo Matsuda	LDP	December 3, 1969	December 27, 1969 (dissolution)
56	Naka Funada	LDP	January 14, 1970	November 13, 1972 (dissolution)
57	Umekichi Nakamura	LDP	December 22, 1972	May 29, 1973 (resignation)
58	Shigesaburō Maeo	LDP	May 29, 1973	December 9, 1976
59	Shigeru Hori	LDP	December 24, 1976	February 1, 1979 (resignation)
60	Hirokichi Nadao	LDP	February 1, 1979	September 7, 1979 (dissolution)
61	Hirokichi Nadao	LDP	October 30, 1979	May 19, 1980 (dissolution)
62	Hajime Fukuda	LDP	July 17, 1980	November 28, 1983 (dissolution)
63	Kenji Fukunaga	LDP	December 26, 1983	January 24, 1985 (resignation)
64	Michita Sakata	LDP	January 24, 1985	June 2, 1986 (dissolution)
65	Kenzaburō Hara	LDP	July 22, 1986	June 2, 1989 (resignation)
66	Hajime Tamura	LDP	June 2, 1989	January 24, 1990 (dissolution)
67	Yoshio Sakurauchi	LDP	February 27, 1990	June 18, 1993 (dissolution)
68	Takako Doi	JSP	August 6, 1993	September 27, 1996 (dissolution)
69	Sōichirō Itō	LDP	November 7, 1996	June 2, 2000 (dissolution)
70	Tamisuke Watanuki	LDP	July 4, 2000	October 10, 2003 (dissolution)
71	Yōhei Kōno	LDP	November 19, 2003	August 8, 2005 (dissolution)
72	Yōhei Kōno	LDP	September 21, 2005	July 21, 2009 (dissolution)
73	Takahiro Yokomichi	DPJ	September 16, 2009	November 16, 2012 (dissolution)
74	Bunmei Ibuki	LDP	December 26, 2012	November 21, 2014 (dissolution)
75	Nobutaka Machimura	LDP	December 24, 2014	April 21, 2015 (resignation)
76	Tadamori Oshima	LDP	April 21, 2015	September 28, 2017 (dissolution)
77	Tadamori Ōshima	LDP	November 1, 2017	Incumbent

Vice Speakers

#	Name	Party	Entered office	Left office
Empire of Japan
1	Mamichi Tsuda	Taiseikai	November 26, 1890	December 25, 1891
2	Arasuke Sone		May 3, 1892	August 31, 1893
3	Masataka Kusumoto		November 26, 1893	December 15, 1893
4	Iiwane Abe		December 18, 1893	December 30, 1893
5	Kenkichi Katoka		May 12, 1894	June 2, 1894
6	Saburō Shimada		October 15, 1894	December 25, 1897
7	Hajime Motoda		May 15, 1898	June 10, 1898
8	Hajime Motoda		November 9, 1898	December 7, 1902
9	Hajime Motoda		December 7, 1902	December 28, 1902
10	Teiichi Sugita		May 9, 1903	December 11, 1903
11	Katsundo Minoura		March 18, 1904	December 23, 1908
12	Ryū Koizuka	Const. People's Party Rikken Kokumintō	December 23, 1908	August 21, 1912
13	Naohiko Seki	Const. People's Party	August 21, 1912	December 25, 1914
14	Takuzō Hanai	Impartial Ass. or "Upright Party" Chūseikai	May 17, 1915	December 26, 1915
15	Seiji Hayami	Chūseikai → Kenseikai	December 26, 1915	January 25, 1917
16	Kunimatsu Hamada	Const. People's Party	June 21, 1917	February 26, 1920
17	Gizō Kasuya	Seiyūkai	June 29, 1920	February 17, 1923
18	Genji Matsuda	Seiyūkai	February 17, 1923	January 31, 1924
19	Matajirō Koizumi	Kenseikai → Ind.	June 26, 1924	March 25, 1927
20	Gohē Matsuura	Seiyūkai	March 26, 1927	January 21, 1928
21	Ichirō Kiyose	Kakushintō	April 20, 1928	January 21, 1930
22	Shōju Koyama	Minseitō	April 21, 1930	December 22, 1931
23	Giichi Masuda	Independent	December 23, 1931	January 21, 1932
24	Etsujirō Uehara	Seiyūkai	March 18, 1932	January 21, 1936
25	Tadahiko Okada	Seiyūkai	May 1, 1936	March 21, 1937
26	Tsuneo Kanemitsu	Seiyūkai	July 23, 1937	August 31, 1939
27	Kazutami Tago	Seiyūkai → Yokusan Giin Dōmei	December 23, 1939	December 22, 1941
28	Sakusaburō Uchigasaki	Yokusan Giin Dōmei	December 24, 1941	May 25, 1942
29	Sakusaburō Uchigasaki	Yokusan Seijikai	May 25, 1942	June 7, 1945
30	Eikichi Katsuta	Dainihon Seijikai → JPP	June 8, 1945	December 18, 1945
31	Kozaemon Kimura	JPP	May 22, 1946	February 15, 1947
32	Tomoharu Inoue	JPP	February 21, 1947	March 31, 1947
State of Japan
33	Man'itsu Tanaka	DP	May 21, 1947	December 23, 1948
34	Nobuyuki Iwamoto	Democratic Liberal Party	February 11, 1949	August 28, 1952
35	Nobuyuki Iwamoto	LP	October 24, 1952	March 14, 1953
36	Hyō Hara	JSP (left wing)	May 18, 1953	December 15, 1954
37	Masamichi Takatsu	JSP (left wing)	December 11, 1954	January 24, 1955
38	Motojirō Sugiyama	JSP (right wing) → JSP	March 18, 1955	April 25, 1958
39	Saburō Shiikuma	LDP	June 11, 1958	December 13, 1958
40	Kiyoshi Masaki	JSP	December 13, 1958	January 30, 1960
41	Kōichi Nakamura	JSP	January 30, 1960	October 24, 1960
42	Tsurumatsu Kubota	JSP	December 7, 1960	June 8, 1961
43	Kenzaburō Hara	LDP	June 8, 1961	October 23, 1963
44	Isaji Tanaka	LDP	December 7, 1963	December 20, 1965
45	Sunao Sonoda	LDP	December 20, 1965	December 27, 1966
46	Sunao Sonoda	LDP	February 15, 1967	November 25, 1967
47	Hisao Kodaira	LDP	December 4, 1967	July 16, 1969
48	Sensuke Fujieda	LDP	July 16, 1969	December 2, 1969
49	Seijūrō Arafune	LDP	January 14, 1970	January 29, 1972
50	Shirō Hasegawa	LDP	January 29, 1972	November 13, 1972
51	Daisuke Akita	LDP	December 22, 1972	December 9, 1976
52	Shōichi Mitake	JSP	December 24, 1976	September 7, 1979
53	Haruo Okada	JSP	October 30, 1979	May 19, 1980
54	Haruo Okada	JSP	July 17, 1980	November 28, 1983
55	Seiichi Katsumata	JSP	December 26, 1983	June 2, 1986
56	Shinnen Tagaya	JSP	July 22, 1986	June 2, 1989
57	Yoshinori Yasui	JSP	June 2, 1989	January 24, 1990
58	Kiichi Murayama	JSP	February 27, 1990	June 18, 1993
59	Hyōsuke Kujiraoka	LDP	August 6, 1993	September 27, 1996
60	Kōzō Watanabe	NFP	November 7, 1996	June 2, 2000
61	Kōzō Watanabe	IND Mushozoku no Kai ("Ass. of Independents")	July 4, 2000	October 10, 2003
62	Kansei Nakano	DPJ	November 19, 2003	August 8, 2005
63	Takahiro Yokomichi	DPJ	September 21, 2005	July 21, 2009
64	Seishirō Etō	LDP	September 16, 2009	November 16, 2012
65	Hirotaka Akamatsu	DPJ	December 26, 2012	November 21, 2014
66	Tatsuo Kawabata	DPJ	December 24, 2014	September 28, 2017 (dissolution)
67	Hirotaka Akamatsu	CDP	November 1, 2017	Incumbent

References

• House of Representatives: 衆議院議長・副議長一覧 (in Japanese)
• Rulers.org