Minister of Finance (Japan)

Leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Finance of Japan

Minister of Finance

Emblem of the Government of Japan

Incumbent
Katsunobu Katō

since 1 October 2024

Ministry of Finance
Style| His Excellency
Member of| Cabinet of Japan
National Security Council
Reports to| Prime Minister of Japan
Appointer| Prime Minister of Japan
attested to by the Emperor
Precursor| "Treasury Minister" (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin)
Formation| January 6, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-01-06)
Deputy| State Minister of Finance
Salary| ¥20,916,000

The Minister of Finance (財務大臣, Zaimu Daijin) is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Finance. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council and is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan.

Until 2001, the Japanese title was "Treasury Minister" (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin). Both the current and previous title are translated as "Minister of Finance".

The current minister is Katsunobu Katō, who took office on 1 October 2024.

## List of ministers

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### Prewar (1900–1946)

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# | Name | Took office | Left office

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1 | Masayoshi Matsukata | 1885 | 1892
| Watanabe Kunitake | 1892 | 1895
2 | Masakata Matsukata | 1895 | 1895
3 | Watanabe Kunitake | 1895 | 1896
4 | Masayoshi Matsukata | 1896 | 1898
5 | Inoue Kaoru | 1898 | 1898
6 | Matsuda Masahisa | 1898 | 1898
7 | Masakata Matsukata | 1898 | 1900
8 | Watanabe Kunitake | 1900 | 1901
9 | Saionji Kinmochi | 1901 | 1901
10 | Sone Arasuke | 1901 | 1906
11 | Yoshiro Sakatani | 1906 | 1908
12 | Matsuda Masahisa | 1908 | 1908
| Katsura Tarō | 1908 | 1911
| Yamamoto Tatsuo | 1911 | 1912
| Wakatsuki Reijirō
(1st) | 1912 | 1913
| Takahashi Korekiyo
(1st) | 1913 | 1914
| Wakatsuki Reijirō
(2nd) | 1914 | 1915
| Taketomi Tokitoshi | 1915 | 1916
| Terauchi Masatake | 1916 | 1916
| Kazue Shōda
(1st) | 1916 | 1918
| Takahashi Korekiyo
(2nd) | 1918 | 1922
| Otohiko Ichiki | 1922 | 1923
| Junnosuke Inoue
(1st) | 1923 | 1924
| Kazue Shōda
(2nd) | 1924 | 1924
| Osachi Hamaguchi | 1924 | 1925
| Seiji Hayami | 1925 | 1925
| Kataoka Naoharu | 1925 | 1927
| Takahashi Korekiyo
(3rd) | 1927 | 1927
| Chuzo Mitsuchi | 1927 | 1929
| Junnosuke Inoue
(2nd) | 1929 | 1931
| Takahashi Korekiyo
(4th) | 1931 | 1934
| Sadanobu Fujii | 1934 | 1934
| Takahashi Korekiyo
(5th) | 1934 | 1936
| Machida Chūji | 1936 | 1936
| Eiichi Baba | 1936 | 1937
| Toyotaro Yuki[1] | 1937 | 1937
| Okinori Kaya
(1st) | 1937 | 1938
| Shigeaki Ikeda | 1938 | 1939
| Sotaro Ishiwata
(1st) | 1939 | 1939
| Kazuo Aoki | 1939 | 1940
| Yukio Sakurauchi | 1940 | 1940
| Isao Kawada | 1940 | 1941
| Masatsune Ogura | 1941 | 1941
| Okinori Kaya
(2nd) | 1941 | 1944
| Sotaro Ishiwata
(2nd) | 1944 | 1945
| Juichi Tsushima | 1945 | 1945
| Toyosaku Hirose | 1945 | 1945
| Juichi Tsushima
(2nd) | 1945 | 1945
| Keizō Shibusawa | 1945 | 1946

### Postwar (1946–present)

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Liberal (1945)
Socialist
Ryokufūkai
Democratic (1947)
Democratic Liberal
Liberal (1950)
Independent
Democratic (1954)
Liberal Democratic
Japan New Party
New Party Sakigake
Japan Renewal Party
Democratic

Finance Minister  | Term of office  | Prime Minister

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#  | Portrait  | Name  | Took office  | Left office  | Days
32  |  |  | Tanzan Ishibashi | May 22, 1946  | May 24, 1947  | 367  |  | Shigeru Yoshida
\-  |  |  | Tetsu Katayama
(Acting) | May 24, 1947 | June 1, 1947 | 8 |  | Tetsu Katayama
33  |  |  | Shōtarō Yano | June 1, 1947  | June 25, 1947  | 24
34  |  |  | Takeo Kurusu | June 25, 1947  | March 10, 1948  | 259
35  |  |  | Tokutarō Kitamura | March 10, 1948  | October 15, 1948  | 223  |  | Hitoshi Ashida
36  |  |  | Sanroku Izumiyama | October 19, 1948  | December 14, 1948  | 56  |  | Shigeru Yoshida
37 |  |  | Shinzō Ōya
(Interim) | December 14, 1948 | February 16, 1949 | 64
38  |  |  | Hayato Ikeda | February 16, 1949  | October 30, 1952  | 1352

39  |  |  | Tadaharu Mukai | October 30, 1952  | May 21, 1953  | 203
40  |  |  | Sankurō Ogasawara | May 21, 1953  | December 10, 1954  | 568
41  |  |  | Hisato Ichimada | December 10, 1954  | November 22, 1955  | 744  |  | Ichirō Hatoyama
| November 22, 1955  | December 23, 1956  |
(38)  |  |  | Hayato Ikeda | December 23, 1956  | July 10, 1957  | 199  |  | Tanzan Ishibashi
| Nobusuke Kishi
(41)  |  |  | Hisato Ichimada | July 10, 1957  | June 12, 1958  | 337
42  |  |  | Eisaku Satō | June 12, 1958  | July 19, 1960  | 768
43  |  |  | Mikio Mizuta | July 19, 1960  | July 18, 1962  | 729  |  | Hayato Ikeda
44  |  |  | Kakuei Tanaka | July 18, 1962  | June 3, 1965  | 1051
| Eisaku Satō
45  |  |  | Takeo Fukuda | June 3, 1965  | December 3, 1966  | 548
(43)  |  |  | Mikio Mizuta | December 3, 1966  | November 30, 1968  | 728
(45)  |  |  | Takeo Fukuda | November 30, 1968  | July 5, 1971  | 947
(43)  |  |  | Mikio Mizuta | July 5, 1971  | July 7, 1972  | 368
46  |  |  | Koshiro Ueki | July 7, 1972  | December 22, 1972  | 168  |  | Kakuei Tanaka
47  |  |  | Kiichi Aichi | December 22, 1972  | November 23, 1973  | 336
(45)  |  |  | Takeo Fukuda | November 25, 1973  | July 16, 1974  | 233
48  |  |  | Masayoshi Ōhira | July 16, 1974  | December 24, 1976  | 892
| Takeo Miki
49  |  |  | Hideo Bo | December 24, 1976  | November 28, 1977  | 339  |  | Takeo Fukuda
50  |  |  | Tatsuo Murayama | November 28, 1977  | December 7, 1978  | 374
51  |  |  | Ippei Kaneko | December 7, 1978  | November 9, 1979  | 337  |  | Masayoshi Ōhira
52  |  |  | Noboru Takeshita | November 9, 1979  | July 17, 1980  | 251
53  |  |  | Michio Watanabe | July 17, 1980  | November 27, 1982  | 863  |  | Zenkō Suzuki
(52)  |  |  | Noboru Takeshita | November 27, 1982  | July 22, 1986  | 1333  |  | Yasuhiro Nakasone
54  |  |  | Kiichi Miyazawa | July 22, 1986  | December 9, 1988  | 871
| Noboru Takeshita
(52) |  |  | Noboru Takeshita
(Acting) | December 9, 1988 | December 27, 1988 | 18
(50)  |  |  | Tatsuo Murayama | December 27, 1988  | August 10, 1989  | 226
| Sosuke Uno
55  |  |  | Ryutaro Hashimoto | August 10, 1989  | October 14, 1991  | 795  |  | Toshiki Kaifu
\-  |  |  | Toshiki Kaifu
(Acting) | October 14, 1991 | November 5, 1991 | 22
56  |  |  | Tsutomu Hata | November 5, 1991  | December 12, 1992  | 403  |  | Kiichi Miyazawa
57  |  |  | Yoshiro Hayashi | December 12, 1992  | August 9, 1993  | 240
58  |  |  | Hirohisa Fujii | August 9, 1993  | June 30, 1994  | 325  |  | Morihiro Hosokawa
| Tsutomu Hata
59  |  |  | Masayoshi Takemura | June 30, 1994  | January 11, 1996  | 560  |  | Tomiichi Murayama
60  |  |  | Wataru Kubo | January 11, 1996  | November 7, 1996  | 301  |  | Ryutaro Hashimoto
61  |  |  | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka | November 7, 1996  | January 28, 1998  | 447
62  |  |  | Hikaru Matsunaga | January 30, 1998  | July 30, 1998  | 181
(54)  |  |  | Kiichi Miyazawa | July 30, 1998  | April 26, 2001  | 1001  |  | Keizo Obuchi
| Yoshirō Mori
63  |  |  | Masajuro Shiokawa | April 26, 2001  | September 22, 2003  | 879  |  | Junichiro Koizumi
64  |  |  | Sadakazu Tanigaki | September 22, 2003  | September 26, 2006  | 1100
65  |  |  | Kōji Omi | September 26, 2006  | August 27, 2007  | 335  |  | Shinzō Abe
66  |  |  | Fukushiro Nukaga | August 27, 2007  | August 2, 2008  | 341
| Yasuo Fukuda
67  |  |  | Bunmei Ibuki | August 2, 2008  | September 24, 2008  | 53
68  |  |  | Shōichi Nakagawa | September 24, 2008  | February 18, 2009  | 147  |  | Tarō Asō
69  |  |  | Kaoru Yosano | February 18, 2009  | September 16, 2009  | 210
(58)  |  |  | Hirohisa Fujii | September 16, 2009  | January 6, 2010  | 112  |  | Yukio Hatoyama
70  |  |  | Naoto Kan | January 6, 2010  | June 8, 2010  | 153
71  |  |  | Yoshihiko Noda | June 8, 2010  | September 2, 2011  | 451  |  | Naoto Kan
72  |  |  | Jun Azumi | September 2, 2011  | October 1, 2012  | 395  |  | Yoshihiko Noda
73  |  |  | Koriki Jojima | October 1, 2012  | December 26, 2012  | 86
74  |  |  | Tarō Asō | December 26, 2012  | October 4, 2021  | 3204  |  | Shinzō Abe
| Yoshihide Suga
75  |  |  | Shun'ichi Suzuki | October 4, 2021  | October 1, 2024  | 1093  |  | Fumio Kishida
76  |  |  | Katsunobu Katō | October 1, 2024  | Incumbent | 274  |  | Shigeru Ishiba

## References

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1. ^ Fuji Ginkō. (1967). Banking in modern Japan, p. 125.

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Finance ministers of Japan

Minister of Finance (大蔵卿, Ōkura-kyō)
under the Daijōkan system of the Meiji Government|

* Matsudaira
* Date
* Ōkubo
* Ōkuma
* Sano
* Matsukata

Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin)
under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan|

* Matsukata
* Watanabe
* Matsukata
* Watanabe
* Matsukata
* Inoue
* Matsuda
* Matsukata
* Watanabe
* Saionji
* Sone
* Sakatani
* Matsuda
* Katsura
* Yamamoto
* Wakatsuki
* Takahashi
* Wakatsuki
* Taketomi
* Terauchi
* Shōda
* Takahashi
* Ichiki
* Inoue
* Shōda
* Hamaguchi
* Hayami
* Naoharu
* Takahashi
* Mitsuchi
* Inoue
* Takahashi
* Fujii
* Takahashi
* Machida
* Baba
* Yūki
* Kaya
* Ikeda
* Ishiwata
* Aoki
* Sakurauchi
* Kawada
* Ogura
* Kaya
* Ishiwata
* Tsushima
* Hirose
* Tsushima
* Shibusawa
* Ishibashi

Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin)
under the Constitution of Japan|

* Katayama
* Yano
* Kurusu
* Kitamura
* Yoshida
* Izumiyama
* Ōya
* Ikeda
* Mukai
* Ogasawara
* Ichimanda
* Ikeda
* Ichimanda
* Satō
* Mizuta
* Tanaka
* Fukuda
* Mizuta
* Fukuda
* Mizuta
* Ueki
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* Murayama
* Hashimoto
* Kaifu
* Hata
* Hayashi
* Fujii
* Takemura
* Kubo
* Mitsuzuka
* Matsunaga
* Miyazawa

Minister of Finance (財務大臣, Zaimu Daijin)|

* Miyazawa
* Shiokawa
* Tanigaki
* Omi
* Nukaga
* Ibuki
* Nakagawa
* Yosano
* Fujii
* Kan
* Noda
* Azumi
* Jojima
* Asō
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