Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣, Soumu Daijin) is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council, and is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan.

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
Emblem of the Government of Japan
Incumbent
Takeaki Matsumoto
since 14 December 2023
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
StyleHis Excellency
Member ofCabinet of Japan
National Security Council
Reports toPrime Minister of Japan
NominatorPrime Minister of Japan
AppointerEmperor of Japan
attested to by the Emperor
PrecursorMinister of Posts and Telecommunications
Minister of Home Affairs
Director-General of the Internal Affairs and Communications Bureau
FormationJanuary 6, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-01-06)
DeputyState Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
Salary¥20,916,000

The current minister is Takeaki Matsumoto, who took office on December 14, 2023.

List of ministers for internal affairs and communications (2001–) edit

  Liberal Democratic
  Democratic
  Independent

Internal Affairs Minister Term of office Prime Minister
# Portrait Name Took office Left office Days
1   Toranosuke Katayama January 6, 2001 September 22, 2003 989 Yoshirō Mori
Junichiro Koizumi
2   Taro Aso September 22, 2003 October 31, 2005 770
3   Heizō Takenaka October 31, 2005 September 26, 2006 330
4   Yoshihide Suga September 26, 2006 August 27, 2007 335 Shinzō Abe
5   Hiroya Masuda August 27, 2007 September 24, 2008 394
Yasuo Fukuda
6   Kunio Hatoyama September 24, 2008 June 12, 2009 261 Taro Aso
7   Tsutomu Sato June 12, 2009 September 16, 2009 96
8   Kazuhiro Haraguchi September 16, 2009 September 17, 2010 366 Yukio Hatoyama
Naoto Kan
9   Yoshihiro Katayama September 17, 2010 September 2, 2011 350
10   Tatsuo Kawabata September 2, 2011 October 1, 2012 395 Yoshihiko Noda
11   Shinji Tarutoko October 1, 2012 December 26, 2012 86
12   Yoshitaka Shindō December 26, 2012 September 3, 2014 616 Shinzō Abe
14   Sanae Takaichi September 3, 2014 August 3, 2017 1065
15   Seiko Noda August 3, 2017 October 2, 2018 425
16   Masatoshi Ishida October 2, 2018 September 11, 2019 344
(14)   Sanae Takaichi September 11, 2019 September 16, 2020 371
17   Ryota Takeda September 16, 2020 October 4, 2021 383 Yoshihide Suga
18   Yasushi Kaneko October 4, 2021 August 10, 2022 310 Fumio Kishida
19   Minoru Terada August 10, 2022 November 20, 2022 102
20   Takeaki Matsumoto November 21, 2022 September 13, 2023 296
21   Junji Suzuki September 13, 2023 December 14, 2023 92
22   Takeaki Matsumoto December 14, 2023 Incumbent 104
Reference: soumu.go.jp

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