Minister For Foreign Affairs (Japan) - List of Ministers

List of Ministers

# Name Took office Left office
19th century
1 Inoue Kaoru 1885 1887
2 Itō Hirobumi 1887 1888
3 Ōkuma Shigenobu
(1st)
1888 1889
4 Aoki Shūzō
(1st)
1889 1891
5 Enomoto Takeaki 1891 1892
6 Mutsu Munemitsu 1892 1896
7 Saionji Kinmochi
(1st)
1896 1896
Ōkuma Shigenobu
(2nd)
1896 1897
8 Nishi Tokujirō 1897 1898
Ōkuma Shigenobu
(3rd)
1898 1898
Aoki Shūzō
(2nd)
1898 1900
20th century
9 Katō Takaaki
(1st)
1900 1901
10 Sone Arasuke 1901 1901
11 Komura Jutarō
(1st)
1901 1906
Katō Takaaki
(2nd)
1906 1906
Saionji Kinmochi
(2nd)
1906 1906
12 Hayashi Tadasu 1906 1908
13 Terauchi Masatake
(1st)
1908 1908
Komura Jutarō
(2nd)
1908 1911
14 Uchida Kosai
(1st)
1911 1912
15 Katsura Tarō 1912 1913
Katō Takaaki
(2nd)
1913 1913
16 Makino Nobuaki 1913 1914
Katō Takaaki
(3rd)
1914 1915
Ōkuma Shigenobu
(4th)
1915 1915
17 Ishii Kikujirō 1915 1916
Terauchi Masatake
(2nd)
1916 1916
18 Motono Ichirō 1916 1918
19 Gotō Shinpei 1918 1918
Uchida Kosai
(2nd)
1918 1923
20 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe 1923 1923
21 Hikokichi Ijuin 1923 1924
22 Matsui Keishirō 1924 1924
23 Kijūrō Shidehara
(1st)
1924 1927
24 Tanaka Giichi 1927 1929
Kijūrō Shidehara
(2nd)
1929 1931
25 Inukai Tsuyoshi 1931 1932
26 Kenkichi Yoshizawa 1932 1932
27 Saitō Makoto 1932 1932
Uchida Kosai
(3rd)
1932 1933
28 Kōki Hirota
(1st)
1933 1936
29 Hachirō Arita
(1st)
1936 1937
30 Senjuro Hayashi 1937 1937
31 Naotake Satō 1937 1937
Kōki Hirota
(2nd)
1937 1938
32 Kazushige Ugaki 1938 1938
33 Fumimaro Konoe 1938 1938
Hachirō Arita
(2nd)
1938 1939
34 Nobuyuki Abe 1939 1939
35 Kichisaburō Nomura 1939 1940
Hachirō Arita
(3rd)
1940 1940
36 Yōsuke Matsuoka 1940 1941
37 Teijirō Toyoda 1941 1941
38 Shigenori Tōgō
(1st)
1941 1942
39 Hideki Tōjō 1942 1942
40 Masayuki Tani 1942 1943
41 Mamoru Shigemitsu
(1st)
1943 1945
42 Kantarō Suzuki 1945 1945
Shigenori Tōgō
(2nd)
1945 1945
Mamoru Shigemitsu
(2nd)
1945 1945
43 Shigeru Yoshida
(1st)
1945 1947
44 Hitoshi Ashida 1947 1948
Shigeru Yoshida
(2nd)
1948 1952
45 Katsuo Okazaki 1952 1954
Mamoru Shigemitsu
(3rd)
1954 1956
46 Nobusuke Kishi 1956 1957
47 Aiichiro Fujiyama 1957 1960
48 Zentaro Kosaka
(1st)
1960 1962
49 Masayoshi Ōhira
(1st)
1962 1964
50 Shiina Etsusaburo 1964 1966
51 Takeo Miki 1966 1968
52 Kiichi Aichi 1968 1971
53 Takeo Fukuda 1971 1972
Masayoshi Ōhira
(2nd)
1972 1974
54 Toshio Kimura 1974 1974
55 Kiichi Miyazawa 1974 1976
Zentaro Kosaka
(2nd)
1976 1976
56 Iichirō Hatoyama 1976 1977
57 Sunao Sonoda
(1st)
1977 1979
58 Saburo Okita 1979 1980
59 Masayoshi Ito 1980 1981
Sunao Sonoda
(2nd)
1981 1981
60 Yoshio Sakurauchi 1981 1982
61 Shintaro Abe 1982 1986
62 Tadashi Kuranari 1986 1987
63 Sōsuke Uno 1987 1989
64 Hiroshi Mitsuzuka 1989 1989
65 Taro Nakayama 1989 1991
66 Michio Watanabe 1991 1993
67 Kabun Muto 1993 1993
68 Tsutomu Hata 1993 1994
69 Koji Kakizawa 1994 1994
70 Yohei Kono
(1st)
1994 1996
71 Yukihiko Ikeda 1996 1997
72 Keizō Obuchi 1997 1998
73 Masahiko Kōmura
(1st)
1998 1999
Yohei Kono
(2nd)
1999 2001
21st century
71 Makiko Tanaka 2001 2002
72 Junichiro Koizumi 2002 2002
73 Yoriko Kawaguchi 2002 2004
74 Nobutaka Machimura
(1st)
2004 2005
75 Tarō Asō 2005 2007
Nobutaka Machimura
(2nd)
2007 2007
Masahiko Kōmura
(2nd)
2007 2008
76 Hirofumi Nakasone 2008 2009
77 Katsuya Okada 2009 2010
78 Seiji Maehara 2010 2011
Yukio Edano (acting) 2011 2011
79 Takeaki Matsumoto 2011 2011
80 Kōichirō Genba 2011 Present

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