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 divided between those for political affairs (政務担当) or those for administrative affairs (事務担当). Since the Obuchi cabinet there are two for political affairs and one for administrative affaris, prior to that there were one of each.

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 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for administrative affairs is considered the senior position in the bureaucracy and is normally given to someone who has served as administrative vice-minister or in a equivalent position.[1]

List of officeholders

Since the Obuchi Cabinet

Date of appointmentPolitical affairs
(House of Representatives)		Political affairs
(House of Councillors)		Administrative affairsPrime Minister
31 July 1998Muneo SuzukiMitsuhiro UesugiTeijirō FurukawaObuchi
5 October 1999Fukushiro NukagaSōichirō Matsutani
5 April 2000Mori
4 July 2000Shinzo AbeKōsei Ueno
26 April 2001Koizumi
22 September 2003Hiroyuki HosodaMasaaki YamazakiMasahiro Futahashi
7 May 2004Seiken Sugiura
31 October 2005Jinen NagaseSeiji Suzuki
26 September 2006Hakubun ShimomuraJunzō MatobaAbe
27 August 2007Matsushige OnoMitsuhide Iwaki
26 September 2007Masahiro FutahashiFukuda
1 August 2008Ryu Shionoya
24 September 2008Jun MatsumotoYoshitada KonoikeIwao UrumaAso
13 May 2009Katsuhito Asano
16 September 2009Yorihisa MatsunoKoji MatsuiKin'ya TakinoHatoyama
8 June 2010Motohisa FurukawaTetsuro FukuyamaKan
14 January 2011Hirohisa Fujii
17 March 2011Yoshito Sengoku
2 September 2011Tsuyoshi SaitōHiroyuki NagahamaMakoto TaketoshiNoda
1 October 2012Hirokazu Shiba
26 December 2012Katsunobu KatoHiroshige SekoKazuhiro SugitaAbe
7 October 2015Koichi Hagiuda
13 August 2016Kotaro Nogami
3 August 2017Yasutoshi Nishimura
11 September 2019Akihiro NishimuraNaoki Okada
16 September 2020Manabu SakaiSuga
4 October 2021Seiji KiharaYoshihiko IsozakiShun'ichi KuryuKishida
13 September 2023Hideki MuraiHiroshi Moriya

References

  1. ↑ Shinoda, Tomohito (2011-12-01). Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs. University of Washington Press. p. 66-70. ISBN 9780295803739.


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