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The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day. 32 prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a mandate from the Emperor.
Itō Hirobumi became the first Japanese prime minister in 1885 and is the only person to have served on four separate occasions. Shinzo Abe is the longest-serving prime minister with over eight years on two separate occasions, while Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni is the shortest-serving at eight weeks.
The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: Naikaku Sōri-Daijin) is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its ministers of state. The prime minister also serves as the commander-in-chief of the Japan Self Defence Forces [2] and is a ...
Living prime ministers of Japan (as of October 2024) Prime Minister Date of birth Premiership Tomiichi Murayama 3 March 1924 (age 100) 1994–1996 Yasuo Fukuda 16 July 1936 (age 88) 2007–2008 Yoshirō Mori 14 July 1937 (age 87) 2000–2001 Morihiro Hosokawa 14 January 1938 (age 86) 1993–1994
Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, Tōjō Hideki, pronounced [toːʑoː çideki] ⓘ; 30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944, during World War II.
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Wikipedia categories named after prime ministers of Japan (5 C) Pages in category "Prime ministers of Japan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘, Nakasone Yasuhiro, 27 May 1918 – 29 November 2019) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. . His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies and pursuing a hawkish and pro-U.S. foreign poli