No. | President (birth–death) |
Portrait | Constituency or title | Took office | Left office | Election results | Government | |||
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Party | Prime Minister | Term | ||||||||
Preceding parties: Liberal Party (1950) and Democratic Party (1954) | ||||||||||
Interim Leadership Committee (1955–1956) | ||||||||||
— | Ichirō Hatoyama 鳩山 一郎 (1883–1959) |
Rep for Tokyo 1st | 15 November 1955 | 5 April 1956 | None | LDP | himself | 1954–1956 | ||
Bukichi Miki 三木 武吉 (1884–1956) |
Rep for Kagawa 1st | LDP | Hatoyama I. | 1954–1956 | ||||||
Banboku Ōno 大野 伴睦 (1890–1964) |
Rep for Gifu 1st | |||||||||
Taketora Ogata 緒方 竹虎 (1888–1956) |
Rep for Fukuoka 1st | 28 January 1956 (Died in office) | ||||||||
Tsuruhei Matsuno 松野 鶴平 (1883–1962) |
Cou for Kumamoto | 10 February 1956 | 5 April 1956 | |||||||
President (1956–present) | ||||||||||
1 | Ichirō Hatoyama 鳩山 一郎 (1883–1959) |
Rep for Tokyo 1st | 5 April 1956 | 14 December 1956 | Apr. 1956
Ichirō Hatoyama – 394 Nobusuke Kishi – 4 Others – 15 |
LDP | himself | 1954–1956 | ||
2 | Tanzan Ishibashi 石橋 湛山 (1884–1973) |
Rep for Shizuoka 2nd | 14 December 1956 | 21 March 1957 | Dec. 1956 1st round
Nobusuke Kishi – 223 Tanzan Ishibashi – 151 Mitsujiro Ishii – 137 Dec. 1956 2nd round
Tanzan Ishibashi – 258 Nobusuke Kishi – 251 |
LDP | himself | 1956–1957 | ||
3 | Nobusuke Kishi 岸 信介 (1896–1987) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 1st | 21 March 1957 | 14 July 1960 | 1957
Nobusuke Kishi – 471 Kenzō Matsumura – 2 Tokutaro Kitamura – 1 Mitsujirō Ishii – 1 1959
Nobusuke Kishi – 320 Kenzō Matsumura – 166 Others – 5 |
LDP | himself | 1957–1960 | ||
4 | Hayato Ikeda 池田 勇人 (1899–1965) |
Rep for Hiroshima 2nd | 14 July 1960 | 1 December 1964 | 1960 1st Round
Hayato Ikeda – 246 Mitsujirō Ishii – 194 Aiichirō Fujiyama – 49 Others – 7 1960 2nd Round
Hayato Ikeda – 302 Mitsujirō Ishii – 194 1962
Hayato Ikeda – 391 Eisaku Satō – 17 Others – 20 Jul. 1964
Hayato Ikeda – 242 Eisaku Satō – 160 Aiichirō Fujiyama – 72 Hirokichi Nadao – 1 |
LDP | himself | 1960–1964 | ||
5 | Eisaku Satō 佐藤 栄作 (1901–1975) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 2nd | 1 December 1964 | 5 July 1972 | Nov. 1964
Eisaku Satō – Aiichirō Fujiyama – Ichirō Kōno – 1966
Eisaku Satō – 289 Aiichirō Fujiyama – 89 Shigesaburō Maeo – 47 Hirokichi Nadao – 11 Uichi Noda – 9 Others – 5 1968
Eisaku Satō – 249 Takeo Miki – 107 Shigesaburō Maeo – 95 Others – 25 1970
Eisaku Satō – 353 Takeo Miki – 111 Others – 3 |
LDP | himself | 1964–1972 | ||
6 | Kakuei Tanaka 田中 角榮 (1918–1993) |
Rep for Niigata 3rd | 5 July 1972 | 4 December 1974 | 1972
Tanaka Kakuei – 282 Takeo Fukuda – 180 |
LDP | himself | 1972–1974 | ||
7 | Takeo Miki 三木 武夫 (1907–1988) |
Rep for Tokushima at-large | 4 December 1974 | 23 December 1976 | 1974
Takeo Miki – Takeo Fukuda – Masayoshi Ōhira – Yasuhiro Nakasone – |
LDP | himself | 1974–1976 | ||
8 | Takeo Fukuda 福田 赳夫 (1905–1995) |
Rep for Gunma 3rd | 23 December 1976 | 1 December 1978 | 1976
Takeo Fukuda – Masayoshi Ōhira – |
LDP | himself | 1976–1978 | ||
9 | Masayoshi Ōhira 大平 正芳 (1910–1980) |
Rep for Kagawa 2nd | 1 December 1978 | 12 June 1980 (Died in office) |
1978 1st round
Masayoshi Ōhira – 748 Fukuda Takeo – 638 Yasuhiro Nakasone – 93 Toshio Kōmoto – 46 1978 2nd round
Unopposed |
LDP | himself | 1978–1980 | ||
— | Eiichi Nishimura 西村 英一 (1897–1987) Acting President |
Rep for Ōita 2nd | 12 June 1980 | 15 July 1980 | Acting | LDP | (Ito M.) | 1980; Acting | ||
10 | Zenkō Suzuki 鈴木 善幸 (1911–2004) |
Rep for Iwate 1st | 15 July 1980 | 25 November 1982 | Jul. 1980
Zenko Suzuki – Kiichi Miyazawa – Yasuhiro Nakasone – Toshio Kōmoto – Nov. 1980
Unopposed |
LDP | himself | 1980–1982 | ||
11 | Yasuhiro Nakasone 中曽根 康弘 (1918–2019) |
Rep for Gunma 3rd | 25 November 1982 | 31 October 1987 | 1982 1st Round
Yasuhiro Nakasone – 57.6% (559,673) Toshio Kōmoto – 27.2% (265,078) Shintarō Abe – 8.2% (80,443) Ichirō Nakagawa – 6.8% (66,041) 1982 2nd Round
Unopposed 1984
Unopposed Walkover 1986
1-year Extension |
LDP | himself | 1982–1987 | ||
12 | Noboru Takeshita 竹下 登 (1924–2000) |
Rep for Shimane at-large | 31 October 1987 | 2 June 1989 | 1987
Noboru Takeshita – Shintarō Abe – Kiichi Miyazawa – |
LDP | himself | 1987–1989 | ||
13 | Sōsuke Uno 宇野 宗佑 (1922–1998) |
Rep for Shiga at-large | 2 June 1989 | 8 August 1989 | Jun. 1989
Sōsuke Uno – Masayoshi Itō – |
LDP | himself | 1989 | ||
14 | Toshiki Kaifu 海部 俊樹 (1931–2022) |
Rep for Aichi 3rd | 8 August 1989 | 30 October 1991 | Aug. 1989 1st round
Toshiki Kaifu – 279 Yoshirō Hayashi – 120 Shintarō Ishihara – 48 Aug. 1989 2nd round
Unopposed |
LDP | himself | 1989–1991 | ||
15 | Kiichi Miyazawa 宮澤 喜一 (1919–2007) |
Rep for Hiroshima 3rd | 31 October 1991 | 29 July 1993 | 1991
Kiichi Miyazawa – 285 Michio Wantanabe – 120 Hiroshi Mitsuzuka – 87 |
LDP | himself | 1991–1993 | ||
16 | Yōhei Kōno 河野 洋平 (born 1937) |
Rep for Kanagawa 5th | 29 July 1993 | 1 October 1995 | 1993 1st round
Yōhei Kōno – 208 Michio Wantanabe – 159 1993 2nd round
Unopposed |
JNP | Hosokawa | 1993–1994 | ||
JRP | Hata | Apr–Jun 1994 | ||||||||
JSP | Murayama (coalition) |
1994–1996 | ||||||||
17 | Ryutaro Hashimoto 橋本 龍太郎 (1937–2006) |
Rep for Okayama 4th | 1 October 1995 | 24 July 1998 | 1995
Ryutaro Hashimoto – 304 Junichiro Koizumi – 87 1997
Unopposed Walkover |
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LDP | himself | 1996–1998 | ||||||||
18 | Keizō Obuchi 小渕 恵三 (1937–2000) |
Rep for Gunma 5th | 24 July 1998 | 5 April 2000 | 1998
Keizō Obuchi – 225 Seiroku Kajiyama – 102 Junichiro Koizumi – 84 1999
Keizō Obuchi – 350 Koichi Kato – 113 Taku Yamasaki – 51 |
LDP | himself | 1998–2000 | ||
19 | Yoshirō Mori 森 喜朗 (born 1937) |
Rep for Ishikawa 2nd | 5 April 2000 | 24 April 2001 | 2000
Yoshirō Mori – Mikio Aoki – Masakuni Murakami – Hiromu Nonaka – Shizuka Kamei – |
LDP | himself | 2000–2001 | ||
20 | Junichiro Koizumi 小泉 純一郎 (born 1942) |
Rep for Kanagawa 11th | 24 April 2001 | 20 September 2006 | 2001 1st Round
Junichiro Koizumi – 298 Ryutaro Hashimoto – 155 Tarō Asō – 31 2001 2nd Round
Unopposed 2003 |
LDP | himself | 2001–2006 | ||
21 | Shinzo Abe 安倍 晋三 (1954–2022) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 4th | 20 September 2006 | 23 September 2007 |
Shinzo Abe – 464 Tarō Asō – 136 Sadakazu Tanigaki – 102 |
LDP | himself | 2006–2007 | ||
22 | Yasuo Fukuda 福田 康夫 (born 1936) |
Rep for Gunma 4th | 23 September 2007 | 22 September 2008 |
Yasuo Fukuda – 330 Tarō Asō – 197 |
LDP | himself | 2007–2008 | ||
23 | Tarō Asō 麻生 太郎 (born 1940) |
Rep for Fukuoka 8th | 22 September 2008 | 28 September 2009 | LDP | himself | 2008–2009 | |||
24 | Sadakazu Tanigaki 谷垣 禎一 (born 1945) |
Rep for Kyoto 5th | 28 September 2009 | 26 September 2012 | DPJ | Hatoyama Y. | 2009–2010 | |||
DPJ | Kan | 2010–2011 | ||||||||
DPJ | Noda | 2011–2012 | ||||||||
25 (21) |
Shinzo Abe 安倍 晋三 (1954–2022) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 4th | 26 September 2012 | 14 September 2020 |
Shinzo Abe – 141 Shigeru Ishiba – 199 Nobuteru Ishihara – 96 Nobutaka Machimura 34 Yoshimasa Hayashi – 27
Shinzo Abe – 108 Shigeru Ishiba – 89
Unopposed Walkover
Shinzo Abe – 553 Shigeru Ishiba – 254 |
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LDP | himself | 2012–2020 | ||||||||
26 | Yoshihide Suga 菅 義偉 (born 1948) |
Rep for Kanagawa 2nd | 14 September 2020 | 29 September 2021 | LDP | himself | 2020–2021 | |||
27 | Fumio Kishida 岸田 文雄 (born 1957) |
Rep for Hiroshima 1st | 29 September 2021 | 27 September 2024 |
Fumio Kishida – 257 Taro Kono – 170 |
LDP | himself | 2021–2024 | ||
28 | Shigeru Ishiba 石破 茂 (born 1957) |
Rep for Tottori 1st | 27 September 2024 | Incumbent |
Sanae Takaichi – 181 Shigeru Ishiba – 154 Shinjirō Koizumi – 136 Yoshimasa Hayashi – 65 Takayuki Kobayashi – 60 Toshimitsu Motegi – 47 Yōko Kamikawa – 40 Taro Kono – 30 Katsunobu Katō – 22
Shigeru Ishiba – 215 Sanae Takaichi – 194 |
LDP | himself | 2024–present |