Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣, Sōmu Daijin)^[1][2] is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Internal Affairs and Communications. The post has been held by Sanae Takaichi since 3 September 2014.

Ministers for Internal Affairs and Communications

  Liberal Democratic
  Democratic

Internal Affairs Minister				Term of office			Prime Minister
#	Portrait		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Days
1			Toranosuke Katayama	January 6, 2001	September 22, 2003	989		Yoshirō Mori
								Junichiro Koizumi
2			Taro Aso	September 22, 2003	October 31, 2005	770
3			Heizō Takenaka	October 31, 2005	September 26, 2006	330
4			Yoshihide Suga	September 26, 2006	August 27, 2007	335		Shinzō Abe
5			Hiroya Masuda	August 27, 2007	September 24, 2008	394
								Yasuo Fukuda
6			Kunio Hatoyama	September 24, 2008	June 12, 2009	261		Taro Aso
7			Tsutomu Sato	June 12, 2009	September 16, 2009	96
8			Kazuhiro Haraguchi	September 16, 2009	September 17, 2010	366		Yukio Hatoyama
								Naoto Kan
9			Yoshihiro Katayama	September 17, 2010	September 2, 2011	350
10			Tatsuo Kawabata	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012	395		Yoshihiko Noda
11			Shinji Tarutoko	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012	86
12			Yoshitaka Shindō	December 26, 2012	September 3, 2014	616		Shinzō Abe
13			Sanae Takaichi	September 3, 2014	Incumbent	824
Reference: http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_sosiki/annai/soshiki/rekidai.html

References

1. ↑ "Minister, State Secretary, Vice-Minister", Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications | Minister, State Secretary, Vice-Minister,　Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
2. ↑ "List of Ministers", List of Ministers (The Cabinet) | Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet Public Relations Office, December 26, 2012.

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