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The Prime Minister of Japan is the head of the executive branch and chief minister of the government of Japan.This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, including those of the Empire of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day.
The office of prime minister of Japan was established in the 1880s during the Meiji Restoration. Originally chosen and appointed by the emperor (with the recommendation of advisers), since the constitution of 1947 the prime minister has been designated by the Diet (Kokkai) before being formally appointed by the emperor. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the ...
The last prime minister who was a peer was Baron Kijūrō Shidehara, who served as Prime Minister from October 1945 to May 1946. The peerage was abolished when the Constitution of Japan came into effect in May 1947. Certain eminent prime ministers have been awarded the Order of the Chrysanthemum, typically in
- Four years or fewer, renewable indefinitely.
- Kantei
- The Emperor
- ¥40,490,000 annually
Official website of the Prime Minister of Japan. Retrieved 24 May 2012. ↑ 第31代 岡田 啓介 [31st Keisuke Okada] (in Japanese). Official website of the Prime Minister of Japan. Retrieved 24 May 2012. ↑ 第32代 廣田 弘毅 [32nd Koki Hirota] (in Japanese). Official website of the Prime Minister of Japan. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
Prime Minister (birth–death)Term Of Office & Mandate Duration In ...Term Of Office & Mandate Duration In ...Term Of Office & Mandate Duration In ...Count Itō Hirobumi 伊藤 博文 ...22 December 188530 April 1888—Count Kuroda Kiyotaka 黒田 清隆 ...30 April 188825 October 1889—Prince Sanjō Sanetomi 三條 實美 ...25 October 188924 December 1889—Count Yamagata Aritomo 山縣 有朋 ...24 December 18896 May 1891—