Minister of Justice (Japan)

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Minister of Justice

Emblem of the Government of Japan

Incumbent
Ryuji Koizumi

since 13 September 2023

Ministry of Justice
Style| His Excellency
Member of| Cabinet of Japan
Reports to| Prime Minister of Japan
Appointer| Prime Minister of Japan
attested to by the Emperor
Formation| August 1, 1952; 72 years ago (1952-08-01)
Deputy| State Minister of Justice
Salary| ¥20,916,000

The Minister of Justice (法務大臣, Houmu Daijin) is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Justice. The minister is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan.

The current minister is Ryuji Koizumi, who took office on 13 September 2023.

## Organization and authority

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On 1 August 1952, the Attorney General's Office became the Ministry of Justice, headed by a Minister of Justice rather than an attorney general.[1]

By law, the Minister of Justice is authorized to order executions of any inmate on death row at anytime, making the position highly influential. The Minister is also authorized to deport or grant any foreigner residential or permanent visas.

## List of ministers of justice

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### 1952–2000

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Independent Liberal Democratic Japan Renewal Democratic Socialist

Justice minister  | Term of office  | Prime minister

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#  | Portrait  | Name  | Took office  | Left office  | Days
1  |  |  | Tokutaro Kimura | August 1, 1952  | October 30, 1952  | 90  |  | Shigeru Yoshida
2  |  |  | Takeru Inukai | October 30, 1952  | April 22, 1954  | 539
3  |  |  | Ryogo Kato | April 22, 1954  | June 19, 1954  | 58
4  |  |  | Naoshi Ohara | June 19, 1954  | December 10, 1954  | 174
5  |  |  | Shiro Hamamura | December 10, 1954  | November 22, 1955  | 347  |  | Ichirō Hatoyama
6  |  |  | Ryozo Makino | November 22, 1955  | December 23, 1956  | 397
7  |  |  | Umekichi Nakamura | December 23, 1956  | July 10, 1957  | 199  |  | Tanzan Ishibashi
| Nobusuke Kishi
8  |  |  | Toshiki Karasa | July 10, 1957  | June 12, 1958  | 337
9  |  |  | Kiichi Aichi | June 12, 1958  | June 18, 1959  | 371
10  |  |  | Hiroya Ino | June 18, 1959  | July 19, 1960  | 397
11  |  |  | Tetsuzo Kojima | July 19, 1960  | December 8, 1960  | 142  |  | Hayato Ikeda
12  |  |  | Koshiro Ueki | December 8, 1960  | July 18, 1962  | 587
13  |  |  | Kunio Nakagaki | July 18, 1962  | July 18, 1963  | 365
14  |  |  | Okinori Kaya | July 18, 1963  | July 18, 1964  | 366
15  |  |  | Hitoshi Takahashi | July 18, 1964  | June 3, 1965  | 320  |
| Eisaku Satō
16  |  |  | Mitsujirō Ishii | June 3, 1965  | December 3, 1966  | 548  |
17  |  |  | Isaji Tanaka | December 3, 1966  | November 25, 1967  | 357
18  |  |  | Bunzo Akama | November 25, 1967  | November 30, 1968  | 371
19  |  |  | Kichinosuke Saigo | November 30, 1968  | January 14, 1970  | 410
20  |  |  | Takeji Kobayashi | January 14, 1970  | February 9, 1971  | 391
21  |  |  | Daisuke Akita | February 9, 1971  | February 17, 1971  | 8

(12)

|  |  | Koshiro Ueki | February 17, 1971  | July 5, 1971  | 138
23  |  |  | Shigesaburō Maeo | July 5, 1971  | July 7, 1972  | 368
24  |  |  | Yuichi Kori | July 7, 1972  | December 22, 1972  | 168  |  | Kakuei Tanaka
25  |  |  | Isaji Tanaka | December 22, 1972  | November 25, 1973  | 338
26  |  |  | Umekichi Nakamura | November 25, 1973  | November 11, 1974  | 351
27  |  |  | Seigo Hamano | November 11, 1974  | December 9, 1974  | 28
28  |  |  | Osamu Inaba | December 9, 1974  | December 24, 1976  | 746  |  | Takeo Miki
29  |  |  | Hajime Fukuda | December 24, 1976  | October 5, 1977  | 285  |  | Takeo Fukuda
30  |  |  | Mitsuo Setayama | October 5, 1977  | December 7, 1978  | 428
31  |  |  | Yoshimi Furui | December 7, 1978  | November 9, 1979  | 337  |  | Masayoshi Ōhira
32  |  |  | Tadao Kuraishi | November 9, 1979  | July 17, 1980  | 251
33  |  |  | Seisuke Okuno | July 17, 1980  | November 30, 1980  | 502  |  | Zenkō Suzuki
34  |  |  | Michita Sakata | November 30, 1980  | November 27, 1982  | 727
35  |  |  | Hatano Akira | November 27, 1982  | December 27, 1983  | 395  |  | Yasuhiro Nakasone
36  |  |  | Eisaku Sumi | December 27, 1983  | November 1, 1984  | 310
37  |  |  | Hitoshi Shimazaki | November 1, 1984  | December 28, 1985  | 422
38  |  |  | Seigo Suzuki | December 28, 1985  | July 22, 1986  | 206
39  |  |  | Kaname Endo | July 22, 1986  | November 6, 1987  | 472
40  |  |  | Yukio Hasegawa | November 6, 1987  | December 27, 1988  | 416  |  | Noboru Takeshita
41  |  |  | Takashi Hasegawa | December 27, 1998  | December 30, 1998  | 3
42  |  |  | Masami Takatsuji | December 30, 1998  | June 3 1989  | 185
43  |  |  | Kazuo Tanikawa | June 3 1989  | August 10, 1989  | 38  |  | Sōsuke Uno
44  |  |  | Masao Goto | August 10, 1989  | February 28, 1990  | 202  |  | Toshiki Kaifu
45  |  |  | Shin Hasegawa | February 28, 1990  | September 13, 1990  | 197
46  |  |  | Seiroku Kajiyama | September 13, 1990  | December 29, 1990  | 107
47  |  |  | Megumi Sato | December 29, 1990  | November 5, 1991  | 676
48  |  |  | Takashi Tawara | November 5, 1991  | December 12, 1992  | 403  |  | Kiichi Miyazawa
49  |  |  | Masaharu Gotōda | December 12, 1992  | August 9, 1993  | 240
50  |  |  | Akira Mikazuki | August 9, 1993  | April 28, 1994  | 262  |  | Morihiro Hosokawa
52  |  |  | Nagano Shigeto | April 28, 1994  | May 8, 1994  | 10  |  | Tsutomu Hata
53  |  |  | Hiroshi Nakai | May 8, 1994  | June 30, 1994  | 53
54  |  |  | Isao Maeda | June 30, 1994  | August 8, 1995  | 404  |  | Tomiichi Murayama
55  |  |  | Tomoharu Tazawa | August 8, 1995  | October 8, 1995  | 61
56  |  |  | Hiroshi Miyazawa | October 8, 1995  | January 11, 1996  | 95
57  |  |  | Ritsuko Nagao | January 11, 1996  | November 7, 1996  | 301  |  | Ryutaro Hashimoto
58  |  |  | Isao Matsuura | November 7, 1996  | September 11, 1997  | 308
59  |  |  | Kokichi Shimoinaba | September 11, 1997  | July 30, 1998  | 322
60  |  |  | Shozaburo Nakamura | July 30, 1998  | March 8, 1999  | 221  |  | Keizō Obuchi
61  |  |  | Takao Jinnouchi | March 8, 1999  | October 5, 1999  | 211
62  |  |  | Hideo Usui | October 5, 1999  | July 4, 2000  | 273  |
| Yoshirō Mori
63  |  |  | Okiharu Yasuoka | July 4, 2000  | December 5, 2000  | 154
64  |  |  | Masahiko Komura | December 5, 2000  | January 6, 2001  | 32

### 2001–present

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Liberal Democratic
Democratic

Justice minister  | Term of office  | Prime minister

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#  | Portrait  | Name  | Took office  | Left office  | Days

(64)

|  |  | Masahiko Kōmura | January 6, 2001  | April 26, 2001  | 110  |  | Yoshirō Mori
66  |  |  | Mayumi Moriyama | April 26, 2001  | September 22, 2003  | 879  |  | Junichiro Koizumi
67  |  |  | Daizō Nozawa | September 22, 2003  | September 27, 2004  | 371
68  |  |  | Chieko Nōno | September 27, 2004  | October 31, 2005  | 399
69  |  |  | Seiken Sugiura | October 31, 2005  | September 26, 2006  | 330
70  |  |  | Jinen Nagase | September 26, 2006  | August 27, 2007  | 335  |  | Shinzō Abe
71  |  |  | Kunio Hatoyama | August 27, 2007  | August 2, 2008  | 341
| Yasuo Fukuda
72  |  |  | Okiharu Yasuoka | August 2, 2008  | September 24, 2008  | 53
73  |  |  | Eisuke Mori | September 24, 2008  | September 16, 2009  | 357  |  | Taro Aso
74  |  |  | Keiko Chiba | September 16, 2009  | September 7, 2010  | 356  |  | Yukio Hatoyama
| Naoto Kan
75  |  |  | Minoru Yanagida | September 7, 2010  | November 22, 2010  | 76
76  |  |  | Yoshito Sengoku | November 22, 2010  | January 14, 2011  | 53
77  |  |  | Satsuki Eda | January 14, 2011  | September 2, 2011  | 231
78  |  |  | Hideo Hiraoka | September 2, 2011  | January 13, 2012  | 133  |  | Yoshihiko Noda
79  |  |  | Toshio Ogawa | January 13, 2012  | June 4, 2012  | 143
16  |  |  | Makoto Taki | June 4, 2012  | October 1, 2012  | 119
17  |  |  | Keishu Tanaka | October 1, 2012  | October 23, 2012  | 22

(16)  |  |  | Makoto Taki | October 23, 2012  | December 26, 2012  | 64
19  |  |  | Sadakazu Tanigaki | December 26, 2012  | September 3, 2014  | 616  |  | Shinzō Abe
20  |  |  | Midori Matsushima | September 3, 2014  | October 20, 2014  | 47
21  |  |  | Yōko Kamikawa | October 20, 2014  | October 7, 2015  | 352
22  |  |  | Mitsuhide Iwaki | October 7, 2015  | August 3, 2016  | 301
23  |  |  | Katsutoshi Kaneda | August 3, 2016  | August 3, 2017  | 365

(21)  |  |  | Yōko Kamikawa | August 3, 2017  | October 2, 2018  | 425
25  |  |  | Takashi Yamashita | October 2, 2018  | September 11, 2019  | 344
26  |  |  | Katsuyuki Kawai | September 11, 2019  | October 31, 2019  | 50
27  |  |  | Masako Mori | October 31, 2019  | September 16, 2020  | 321

(21)  |  |  | Yōko Kamikawa | September 16, 2020  | October 4, 2021  | 383  |  | Yoshihide Suga
29  |  |  | Yoshihisa Furukawa | October 4, 2021  | 10 August 2022  | 310  |  | Fumio Kishida
30  |  |  | Yasuhiro Hanashi | 10 August 2022  | 11 November 2022  | 93
31  |  |  | Ken Saitō | November 11, 2022  | September 13, 2023  | 306
32  |  |  | Ryuji Koizumi | September 13, 2023  | Incumbent  | 341

## References

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1. ^ "History of the Ministry of Justice". Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 2024-06-16.

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