Suga Cabinet

The Suga Cabinet was formed in September 2020 by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and is the incumbent government of Japan.[1] The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito and controls both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.

Suga Cabinet
99th Cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (front row, centre) with the newly-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, September 16, 2020
Date formed	September 16, 2020
People and organisations
Head of state	Emperor Naruhito
Head of government	Yoshihide Suga
Deputy head of government	Tarō Asō
Member party	Liberal Democratic–Komeito Coalition
Status in legislature	HoR: LDP-K Coalition supermajority HoC: LDP-K Coalition majority
Opposition party	Constitutional Democratic Party
Opposition leader	Yukio Edano
History
Predecessor	Fourth Abe Cabinet

Lists of ministers

  Liberal Democratic
  Komeito
R = Member of the House of Representatives
C = Member of the House of Councillors
B = Bureaucrat

Cabinet

Suga Cabinet[2][3][1]

Portfolio	Minister				Term	Note
Prime Minister			Yoshihide Suga	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Finance Minister of State for Financial Services Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation			Tarō Asō	R	December 26, 2012 – Present	[4][3][2][1]
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications			Ryota Takeda	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Justice			Yōko Kamikawa	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister for Foreign Affairs			Toshimitsu Motegi	R	September 11, 2019 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Defense			Nobuo Kishi	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding			Koichi Hagiuda	R	September 11, 2019 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Minister in charge of Working-style Reform			Norihisa Tamura	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries			Kōtarō Nogami	C	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness Minister for Economic Cooperation with Russia Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact caused by the Nuclear Accident Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation			Hiroshi Kajiyama	R	October 25, 2019 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister in charge of Water Cycle Policy			Kazuyoshi Akaba	R	September 11, 2019 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of the Environment Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness			Shinjiro Koizumi	R	September 11, 2019 – Present	[3][2][1]
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minister in charge of Mitigating the Impact of U.S. Forces in Okinawa Minister in charge of the Abductions Issue			Katsunobu Katō	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[4][3][2][1]
Minister of Reconstruction Minister in charge of Comprehensive Policy Coordination for Revival from the Nuclear Accident at Fukushima			Katsuei Hirasawa	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission Minister in charge of Building National Resilience Minister in charge of Territorial Issues Minister of State for Disaster Management Minister of State for Ocean Policy			Hachiro Okonogi	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Minister of State for Regulatory Reform			Tarō Kōno	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister for Promoting Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens Minister in charge of Regional Revitalization Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate Minister of State for Regional Revitalization			Tetsushi Sakamoto	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization Minister in charge of Social Security Reform			Yasutoshi Nishimura	R	September 11, 2019 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System Minister in charge of Digital Transformation Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy			Takuya Hirai	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment Minister of State for Gender Equality			Seiko Hashimoto	C	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]
Minister in charge of the Osaka World Expo Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Minister of State for "Cool Japan" Strategy Minister of State for the Intellectual Strategy Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Minister of State for Space Policy			Shinji Inoue	R	September 16, 2020 – Present	[3][2][1]

Suga Deputy Cabinet

Portfolio	Deputy Minister				Term	Note
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary			Manabu Sakai	R	September 16, 2020 – Present
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary			Naoki Okada	C	September 11, 2019 – Present
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary			Kazuhiro Sugita	B	December 26, 2012 – Present

Office of the Prime Minister

Portfolio	Adviser				Term	Note
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for National Security			Minoru Kihara	R	September 11, 2019 – Present
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Diplomacy and Economic Issues			Masashi Adachi	C	September 16, 2020 – Present
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Social Capital Development, Regional Revitalization, National Resilience, Reconstruction, Health and Medical Care, Scientific and Technological Innovation			Hiroto Izumi	B	January 21, 2013 – Present

References

1. "Suga becomes Japan PM, forms continuity Cabinet as Abe era ends". Kyodo News. September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
2. "Suga elected prime minister, retains eight Cabinet members". The Asahi Shimbun. September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
3. "Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet - The Cabinet". Retrieved September 16, 2020.
4. "Health Minister Kato to be Chief Cabinet Secretary | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News". NHK WORLD. Retrieved 2020-09-15.

External links

• List of Ministers September 2020 -