The 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 . Both the current and previous title are translated as "Minister of Finance".
The current minister is Satsuki Katayama, who took office on 21 October 2025.
List of ministers
Prewar (1900–1946)
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! # !! Name !! Took office !! Left office
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| 1 || Masayoshi Matsukata || 1885 || 1892
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| || Watanabe Kunitake || 1892 || 1895
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| 2 || Masakata Matsukata || 1895|| 1895
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| 3 || Watanabe Kunitake || 1895 || 1896
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| 4 || Masayoshi Matsukata || 1896 || 1898
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| 5 || Inoue Kaoru || 1898 || 1898
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| 6 || Matsuda Masahisa || 1898 || 1898
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| 7 || Masakata Matsukata || 1898 || 1900
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| 8 || Watanabe Kunitake || 1900 || 1901
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| 9 || Saionji Kinmochi || 1901 || 1901
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| 10 || Sone Arasuke || 1901 || 1906
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| 11 || Yoshiro Sakatani || 1906 || 1908
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| 12 || Matsuda Masahisa || 1908 || 1908
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| || Katsura Tarō || 1908 || 1911
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| || Yamamoto Tatsuo || 1911 || 1912
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| || Wakatsuki Reijirō (1st) || 1912 || 1913
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| || Takahashi Korekiyo (1st) || 1913 || 1914
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| || Wakatsuki Reijirō (2nd) || 1914 || 1915
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| || Taketomi Tokitoshi || 1915 || 1916
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| || Terauchi Masatake || 1916 || 1916
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| || Kazue Shōda (1st) || 1916 || 1918
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| || Takahashi Korekiyo (2nd) || 1918 || 1922
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| || Otohiko Ichiki || 1922 || 1923
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| || Junnosuke Inoue (1st) || 1923 || 1924
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| || Kazue Shōda (2nd) || 1924 || 1924
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| || Osachi Hamaguchi || 1924 || 1925
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| || Seiji Hayami || 1925 || 1925
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| || Kataoka Naoharu || 1925 || 1927
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| || Takahashi Korekiyo (3rd) || 1927 || 1927
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| || Chuzo Mitsuchi || 1927 || 1929
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| || Junnosuke Inoue (2nd) || 1929 || 1931
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| || Takahashi Korekiyo (4th) || 1931 || 1934
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| || Sadanobu Fujii || 1934 || 1934
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| || Takahashi Korekiyo (5th) || 1934 || 1936
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| || Machida Chūji || 1936 || 1936
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| || Eiichi Baba || 1936 || 1937
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| || Toyotaro Yuki || 1937 || 1937
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| || Okinori Kaya (1st) || 1937 || 1938
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| || Shigeaki Ikeda || 1938 || 1939
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| || Sotaro Ishiwata (1st) || 1939 || 1939
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| || Kazuo Aoki || 1939 || 1940
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| || Yukio Sakurauchi || 1940 || 1940
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| || Isao Kawada || 1940 || 1941
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| || Masatsune Ogura || 1941 || 1941
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| || Okinori Kaya (2nd) || 1941 || 1944
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| || Sotaro Ishiwata (2nd) || 1944 || 1945
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| || Juichi Tsushima || 1945 || 1945
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| || Toyosaku Hirose || 1945 || 1945
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| || Juichi Tsushima (2nd) || 1945 || 1945
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| || Keizō Shibusawa || 1945 || 1946
|}
Postwar (1946–present)
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!colspan=4|Finance Minister
!colspan=3|Term of office
! style="width:160px;" rowspan=2 colspan=2|Prime Minister
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!#
!colspan=2|Portrait
!width=180px|Name
!Took office
!Left office
!Days
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|32
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|60px
|Tanzan Ishibashi
|May 22, 1946
|May 24, 1947
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!style="background-color: " |
|Shigeru Yoshida
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| -
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Tetsu Katayama <br>(Acting)
|May 24, 1947
|June 1, 1947
| '
!style="background-color: " rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|Tetsu Katayama
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|33
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|60px
|Shōtarō Yano
|June 1, 1947
|June 25, 1947
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|-
|34
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|60px
|Takeo Kurusu
|June 25, 1947
|March 10, 1948
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|-
|35
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|60px
|Tokutarō Kitamura
|March 10, 1948
|October 15, 1948
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!style="background-color: " |
|Hitoshi Ashida
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|36
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|60px
|Sanroku Izumiyama
|October 19, 1948
|December 14, 1948
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=3|
|rowspan=6|Shigeru Yoshida
|-
| 37
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|60px
|Shinzō Ōya <br>(Interim)
|December 14, 1948
|February 16, 1949
| '
|-
|rowspan=2|38
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|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Hayato Ikeda
|rowspan=2|February 16, 1949
|rowspan=2|October 30, 1952
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|-
!style="background-color: " |
!style="background-color: " rowspan=3|
|-
|39
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|60px
|Tadaharu Mukai
|October 30, 1952
|May 21, 1953
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|-
|40
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|60px
|Sankurō Ogasawara
|May 21, 1953
|December 10, 1954
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|-
|rowspan=2|41
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|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Hisato Ichimada
|December 10, 1954
|November 22, 1955
|rowspan=2|
|style="background-color: " |
|rowspan=2|Ichirō Hatoyama
|-
!style="background-color: " |
|November 22, 1955
|December 23, 1956
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|-
|rowspan=2|(38)
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Hayato Ikeda
|rowspan=2|December 23, 1956
|rowspan=2|July 10, 1957
|rowspan=2|
!style="background-color: " |
|Tanzan Ishibashi
|-
!style="background-color: " rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|Nobusuke Kishi
|-
|(41)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Hisato Ichimada
|July 10, 1957
|June 12, 1958
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|-
|42
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|60px
|Eisaku Satō
|June 12, 1958
|July 19, 1960
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|-
|43
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|60px
|Mikio Mizuta
|July 19, 1960
|July 18, 1962
|
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Hayato Ikeda
|-
|rowspan=2|44
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Kakuei Tanaka
|rowspan=2|July 18, 1962
|rowspan=2|June 3, 1965
|rowspan=2|
|-
!style="background-color: " rowspan=5|
|rowspan=5|Eisaku Satō
|-
|45
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|60px
|Takeo Fukuda
|June 3, 1965
|December 3, 1966
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|-
|(43)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Mikio Mizuta
|December 3, 1966
|November 30, 1968
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|-
|(45)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Takeo Fukuda
|November 30, 1968
|July 5, 1971
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|-
|(43)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Mikio Mizuta
|July 5, 1971
|July 7, 1972
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|-
|46
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|60px
|Koshiro Ueki
|July 7, 1972
|December 22, 1972
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=4|
|rowspan=4|Kakuei Tanaka
|-
|47
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|60px
|Kiichi Aichi
|December 22, 1972
|November 23, 1973
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|-
|(45)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Takeo Fukuda
|November 25, 1973
|July 16, 1974
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|-
|rowspan=2|48
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|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Masayoshi Ōhira
|rowspan=2|July 16, 1974
|rowspan=2|December 24, 1976
|rowspan=2|
|-
!style="background-color: " |
|Takeo Miki
|-
|49
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|60px
|Hideo Bo
|December 24, 1976
|November 28, 1977
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Takeo Fukuda
|-
|50
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|60px
|Tatsuo Murayama
|November 28, 1977
|December 7, 1978
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|-
|51
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Ippei Kaneko
|December 7, 1978
|November 9, 1979
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Masayoshi Ōhira
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|52
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Noboru Takeshita
|November 9, 1979
|July 17, 1980
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|53
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|60px
|Michio Watanabe
|July 17, 1980
|November 27, 1982
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!style="background-color: " |
|Zenkō Suzuki
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|(52)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Noboru Takeshita
|November 27, 1982
|July 22, 1986
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Yasuhiro Nakasone
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|rowspan=2|54
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|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Kiichi Miyazawa
|rowspan=2|July 22, 1986
|rowspan=2|December 9, 1988
|rowspan=2|
|-
!style="background-color: " rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|Noboru Takeshita
|-
|(52)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Noboru Takeshita <br>(Acting)
|December 9, 1988
|December 27, 1988
| '
|-
|rowspan=2|(50)
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Tatsuo Murayama
|rowspan=2|December 27, 1988
|rowspan=2|August 10, 1989
|rowspan=2|
|-
!style="background-color: " |
|Sosuke Uno
|-
|55
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|60px
|Ryutaro Hashimoto
|August 10, 1989
|October 14, 1991
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Toshiki Kaifu
|-
| -
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Toshiki Kaifu <br>(Acting)
|October 14, 1991
|November 5, 1991
| '
|-
|56
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|60px
|Tsutomu Hata
|November 5, 1991
|December 12, 1992
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Kiichi Miyazawa
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|57
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Yoshiro Hayashi
|December 12, 1992
|August 9, 1993
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|-
|rowspan=2|58
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Hirohisa Fujii
|rowspan=2|August 9, 1993
|rowspan=2|June 30, 1994
|rowspan=2|
!style="background-color: " |
|Morihiro Hosokawa
|-
!style="background-color: " |
|Tsutomu Hata
|-
|59
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|60px
|Masayoshi Takemura
|June 30, 1994
|January 11, 1996
|
!style="background-color: " |
|Tomiichi Murayama
|-
|60
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Wataru Kubo
|January 11, 1996
|November 7, 1996
|
!style="background-color: " rowspan=3|
|rowspan=3|Ryutaro Hashimoto
|-
|61
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Hiroshi Mitsuzuka
|November 7, 1996
|January 28, 1998
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|-
|62
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Hikaru Matsunaga
|January 30, 1998
|July 30, 1998
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|-
|rowspan=2|(54)
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Kiichi Miyazawa
|rowspan=2|July 30, 1998
|rowspan=2|April 26, 2001
|rowspan=2|
!style="background-color: " |
|Keizo Obuchi
|-
!style="background-color: " |
|Yoshirō Mori
|-
|63
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Masajuro Shiokawa
|April 26, 2001
|September 22, 2003
|
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Junichiro Koizumi
|-
|64
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Sadakazu Tanigaki
|September 22, 2003
|September 26, 2006
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|-
|65
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Kōji Omi
|September 26, 2006
|August 27, 2007
|
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Shinzō Abe
|-
|rowspan=2|66
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|60px
|rowspan=2|Fukushiro Nukaga
|rowspan=2|August 27, 2007
|rowspan=2|August 2, 2008
|rowspan=2|
|-
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Yasuo Fukuda
|-
|67
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Bunmei Ibuki
|August 2, 2008
|September 24, 2008
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|-
|68
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Shōichi Nakagawa
|September 24, 2008
|February 18, 2009
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Tarō Asō
|-
|69
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Kaoru Yosano
|February 18, 2009
|September 16, 2009
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|-
|(58)
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Hirohisa Fujii
|September 16, 2009
|January 6, 2010
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!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Yukio Hatoyama
|-
|70
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Naoto Kan
|January 6, 2010
|June 8, 2010
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|-
|71
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Yoshihiko Noda
|June 8, 2010
|September 2, 2011
|
!style="background-color: " |
|Naoto Kan
|-
|72
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Jun Azumi
|September 2, 2011
|October 1, 2012
|
!style="background-color: " rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|Yoshihiko Noda
|-
|73
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Koriki Jojima
|October 1, 2012
|December 26, 2012
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|-
|rowspan=2| 74
!rowspan=2 style="background-color: " |
|rowspan=2| 60px
|rowspan=2| Tarō Asō
|rowspan=2| December 26, 2012
|rowspan=2| October 4, 2021
|rowspan=2|
!style="background-color: " |
| Shinzō Abe
|-
!style="background-color: " |
| Yoshihide Suga
|-
|75
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Shun'ichi Suzuki
|October 4, 2021
|October 1, 2024
|
!style="background-color: " |
| Fumio Kishida
|-
|76
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Katsunobu Katō
|October 1, 2024
|October 21, 2025
|
!style="background-color: "|
|Shigeru Ishiba
|-
|77
!style="background-color: " |
|60px
|Satsuki Katayama
|October 21, 2025
|Incumbent
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!style="background-color: "|
|Sanae Takaichi
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