The Minister for Foreign Affairs (外務大臣 Gaimu Daijin) of Japan is the Cabinet member responsible for Japanese foreign policy and the chief executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Since the end of the American occupation of Japan, the position has been one of the most powerful in the Cabinet, as Japan's economic interests have long relied on external relations. The recent efforts of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to establish a more interventionist foreign policy have also heightened the importance of the position.
The current foreign minister is Katsuya Okada.
List of ministers
- Inoue Kaoru (1885–87)
- Ito Hirobumi (1887–88)
- Okuma Shigenobu (1888–89, 1896–97, 1898, 1915)
- Aoki Shuzo (1889–91, 1898–1900)
- Enomoto Takeaki (1891–92)
- Mutsu Munemitsu (1892–96)
- Saionji Kimmochi (1896, 1906)
- Nishi Tokujiro (1897–98)
- Kato Takaaki (1900–01, 1906, 1913, 1914–15)
- Sone Arasuke (1901)
- Komura Jutaro (1901–06, 1908–11)
- Hayashi Tadasu (1906–08)
- Terauchi Masatake (1908, 1916)
- Yasuya Uchida (1911–12, 1918–23, 1932–33)
- Taro Katsura (1912–13)
- Makino Nobuaki (1913–14)
- Kikujiro Ishii (1915–16)
- Ichiro Motono (1916–18)
- Shimpei Goto (1918)
- Gonnohyoe Yamamoto (1923)
- Hikokichi Ijuin (1923–24)
- Keishiro Matsui (1924)
- Kijuro Shidehara (1924–27, 1929–31)
- Giichi Tanaka (1927–29)
- Tsuyoshi Inukai (1931–32)
- Kenkichi Yoshizawa (1932)
- Makoto Saito (1932)
- Koki Hirota (1933–36, 1937–38)
- Hachiro Arita (1936–37, 1938–39, 1940)
- Senjuro Hayashi (1937)
- Naotake Sato (1937)
- Kazushige Ugaki (1938)
- Nobuyuki Abe (1939)
- Kichisaburo Nomura (1939–40)
- Yosuke Matsuoka (1940–41)
- Teijiro Toyoda (1941)
- Shigenori Togo (1941–1942, 1945)
- Hideki Tojo (1942)
- Masayuki Tani (1942–43)
- Mamoru Shigemitsu (1943–45, 1945, 1954–56)
- Kantaro Suzuki (1945)
- Shigeru Yoshida (1945–47, 1948–54)
- Hitoshi Ashida (1947–48)
- Nobusuke Kishi (1956–57)
- Aiichiro Fujiyama (1957–60)
- Zentaro Kosaka (1960–62, 1976)
- Masayoshi Ohira (1962–64, 1972–74)
- Etsusaburo Shiina (1964–66)
- Takeo Miki (1966–68)
- Kiichi Aichi (1968–71)
- Takeo Fukuda (1971–72)
- Toshio Kimura (1974)
- Kiichi Miyazawa (1974–76)
- Iichirō Hatoyama (1976–77)
- Sunao Sonoda (1977–79, 1981)
- Saburo Okita (1979–80)
- Masayoshi Ito (1980–81)
- Yoshio Sakurauchi (1981–82)
- Shintaro Abe (1982–86)
- Tadashi Kuranari (1986–87)
- Sosuke Uno (1987–89)
- Hiroshi Mitsuzuka (1989)
- Taro Nakayama (1989–91)
- Michio Watanabe (1991–93)
- Kabun Muto (1993)
- Tsutomu Hata (1993–94)
- Koji Kakizawa (1994)
- Yohei Kono (1994–96, 1999–2001)
- Yukihiko Ikeda (1996–97)
- Keizo Obuchi (1997–98)
- Masahiko Komura (1998–99)
- Yohei Kono (1994–96, 1999–2001)
- Makiko Tanaka (2001–02)
- Junichiro Koizumi (2002)
- Yoriko Kawaguchi (2002–04)
- Nobutaka Machimura (2004–05)
- Tarō Asō (2005–07)
- Nobutaka Machimura (2007)
- Masahiko Kōmura (2007–2008)
- Hirofumi Nakasone (2008–2009)
- Katsuya Okada (2009–present)
See also
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