Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
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The Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (内閣官房副長官, Naikaku-kanbō-fuku-chōkan) is an official in the Japanese government who assists the Chief Cabinet Secretary. Since July 1998 there have always been three Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries at any given time.
Role
The Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries are customarily divided into two types: those responsible for political affairs (政務担当) and those responsible for administrative affairs (事務担当). Since the Obuchi Cabinet, there have been two Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries for political affairs and one for administrative affairs. Prior to that, there were one for each.[1]
The Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries for political affairs are members of the National Diet, one from the House of Representatives and one from the House of Councillors. The position is often given to a protégé or close aide to the Prime Minister. It is considered a gateway to success for mid-career Diet members, as those who serve in it have often been given important cabinet positions afterwards. There are five instances of former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries becoming Prime Minister: Noboru Takeshita, Toshiki Kaifu, Yoshirō Mori, Shinzo Abe and Yukio Hatoyama.[1][2][3]
The Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for administrative affairs is the senior bureaucrat in the government. The position is typically filled by someone who has previously served as administrative vice-minister or in a equivalent role. The main function of this position is to coordinate the bureaucracy. They preside over the administrative vice-minister's liaison conference, a sub-cabinet meeting of the senior bureaucrats of each ministry.[1][2][3]
List of officeholders
Since the Obuchi Cabinet
Date of appointment | Political affairs (House of Representatives) | Political affairs (House of Councillors) | Administrative affairs | Prime Minister |
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31 July 1998 | Muneo Suzuki | Mitsuhiro Uesugi | Teijirō Furukawa | Obuchi |
5 October 1999 | Fukushiro Nukaga | Sōichirō Matsutani | ||
5 April 2000 | Mori | |||
4 July 2000 | Shinzo Abe | Kōsei Ueno | ||
26 April 2001 | Koizumi | |||
22 September 2003 | Hiroyuki Hosoda | Masaaki Yamazaki | Masahiro Futahashi | |
7 May 2004 | Seiken Sugiura | |||
31 October 2005 | Jinen Nagase | Seiji Suzuki | ||
26 September 2006 | Hakubun Shimomura | Junzō Matoba | Abe | |
27 August 2007 | Matsushige Ono | Mitsuhide Iwaki | ||
26 September 2007 | Masahiro Futahashi | Fukuda | ||
1 August 2008 | Ryu Shionoya | |||
24 September 2008 | Jun Matsumoto | Yoshitada Konoike | Iwao Uruma | Aso |
13 May 2009 | Katsuhito Asano | |||
16 September 2009 | Yorihisa Matsuno | Koji Matsui | Kin'ya Takino | Hatoyama |
8 June 2010 | Motohisa Furukawa | Tetsuro Fukuyama | Kan | |
14 January 2011 | Hirohisa Fujii | |||
17 March 2011 | Yoshito Sengoku | |||
2 September 2011 | Tsuyoshi Saitō | Hiroyuki Nagahama | Makoto Taketoshi | Noda |
1 October 2012 | Hirokazu Shiba | |||
26 December 2012 | Katsunobu Kato | Hiroshige Seko | Kazuhiro Sugita | Abe |
7 October 2015 | Koichi Hagiuda | |||
13 August 2016 | Kotaro Nogami | |||
3 August 2017 | Yasutoshi Nishimura | |||
11 September 2019 | Akihiro Nishimura | Naoki Okada | ||
16 September 2020 | Manabu Sakai | Suga | ||
4 October 2021 | Seiji Kihara | Yoshihiko Isozaki | Shun'ichi Kuryu | Kishida |
13 September 2023 | Hideki Murai | Hiroshi Moriya |
References
- ^ a b c "政権の黒子?出世の登竜門? 官房副長官の役割とは". Jiji.com (in Japanese). Jiji Press. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ a b Hayao, Kenji (1993). The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 165–167. ISBN 978-0-8229-7157-3.
- ^ a b Shinoda, Tomohito (2011). Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs. University of Washington Press. pp. 66–70. ISBN 978-0-2958-0373-9.
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