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Gen Nakatani (中谷 元, Nakatani Gen, born 14 October 1957) is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry of Defense) in the first cabinet of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001-2002 and was appointed the Minister of Defense by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014.
Japan's main goal of national defense is the prevention of indirect as well as direct aggression from outside enemies. The Japanese government reformed the Defense Agency to the Ministry of Defense with a ceremony that was attended by then Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and the then-new Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma.
The Japanese Defense Agency was established on 1 July 1954. Until May 2000, it was based in Akasaka (currently occupied by Tokyo Midtown).The JDA was placed under the authority of the Prime Minister's Office under Article 2 of the Defense Agency Establishment Law [17] before it was placed under the Cabinet Office in 2001.
Japanese defence minister Gen Nakatani has decided to postpone a visit to South Korea, which was tentatively planned for later this month, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed ...
The Second Ishiba Cabinet is the 103rd Cabinet of Japan, formed by Shigeru Ishiba on 11 November 2024, following the general election on 27 October 2024.Members of the First Ishiba Cabinet were reappointed except for Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, Tourism Tetsuo Saito, who has become the Chief Representative of Komeito, Minister of Justice Hideki Makihara who lost his seat in the ...
Gen Nakatani MR for Kōchi 1st: Minister of Defense: Ministry of Defense: 1 October 2024 (3 months ago) () Yoshimasa Hayashi MR for Yamaguchi 3rd: Chief Cabinet Secretary Minister in charge of Mitigating the Impact of U.S. Forces in Okinawa Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue: Cabinet Secretariat Cabinet Office: 14 December 2023
Minister of Defense; In office 26 September 2007 – 2 August 2008: Prime Minister: Yasuo Fukuda: Preceded by: Masahiko Kōmura: Succeeded by: Yoshimasa Hayashi: Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency; In office 30 September 2002 – 27 September 2004: Prime Minister: Junichiro Koizumi: Preceded by: Gen Nakatani: Succeeded by: Yoshinori Ohno
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani postponed a scheduled visit in late December. [358] Kazakhstan also cancelled defense meetings with its South Korean counterparts and a visit by Defense Minister Ruslan Jaqsylyqov on 5 December, while a visit by Japanese MPs from the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians' Union led by former Prime Minister ...