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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 ...
Cabinet Secretariat, Office of Cabinet Public Relations, Japan (2003) prime minister of Japan and His Cabinet. Retrieved 28 Oct. 2003; Hunter, Janet (1984). Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 266–324, Appendix 5: Japanese Cabinets Since the Introduction of the Cabinet ...
Order Cabinet Dates Prime Minister Governing party Emperor; Constituted Concluded 1 First Itō Cabinet: 22 December 1885 (): 30 April 1888 (): Itō Hirobumi: None (Meiji oligarchy) ...
This is a list of prime ministers of Japan and the educational institutions they attended. As of October 2024, of the 65 prime ministers to date, 17 were educated at the University of Tokyo (called Tokyo Imperial University between 1897 and 1947), seven at Waseda University, six at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, five at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, four at Keio University, two at ...
List of prime ministers of Japan by time in office This page was last edited on 21 August 2024, at 11:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This is a list of prime ministers of Japan by home prefecture. This is based on prefectures where each prime minister was born, and not based on prefectures primarily affiliated or most closely associated with the prime ministers due to residence, professional career, or electoral history. [1] [2] [3] [4]