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Kan Cabinet (Formed June 8, 2010)

DEFENSE MINISTER

Toshimi Kitazawa

DEFENSE MINISTER Toshimi Kitazawa

Date of birth: March 6, 1938

Party: Democratic Party of Japan

Electoral district: Upper House; Nagano (fourth term)

Kitazawa is retaining the post of defense minister, which he also held under the administration of Yukio Hatoyama.

In the Hatoyama Cabinet, he ordered the Maritime Self-Defense Force to terminate its international antiterrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean.

He has also held the difficult role of lobbying local Okinawa governments to accept the transfer of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to Nago.

The Nagano native, who kept his Upper House seat in July's election, began his political career as a Diet member's secretary. He was elected in 1975 to the Nagano Prefectural Assembly, where he served 17 years.

Kitazawa was elected in 1992 to the Upper House on the Liberal Democratic Party ticket but bolted to Shinshinto the next year. He joined the DPJ in 1998.


 

Subsequent changes

PRIME MINISTER Naoto Kan

PRIME MINISTER

Naoto Kan

MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS Kazuhiro Haraguchi

MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Kazuhiro Haraguchi

JUSTICE MINISTER Keiko Chiba

JUSTICE MINISTER

Keiko Chiba

FOREIGN MINISTER Katsuya Okada

FOREIGN MINISTER

Katsuya Okada

FINANCE MINISTER Yoshihiko Noda

FINANCE MINISTER

Yoshihiko Noda

EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER Tatsuo Kawabata

EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER

Tatsuo Kawabata

MINISTER OF HEALTH, LABOR AND WELFARE Akira Nagatsuma

MINISTER OF HEALTH, LABOR AND WELFARE

Akira Nagatsuma

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES Masahiko Yamada

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES

Masahiko Yamada

MINISTER OF ECONOMY, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY Masayuki Naoshima

MINISTER OF ECONOMY, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY

Masayuki Naoshima

MINISTER OF LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM Seiji Maehara

MINISTER OF LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM

Seiji Maehara

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Sakihito Ozawa

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

Sakihito Ozawa

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY Yoshito Sengoku

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY

Yoshito Sengoku

NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN Hiroshi Nakai

NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN

Hiroshi Nakai

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF FINANCIAL AND POSTAL ISSUES Shizuka Kamei

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF FINANCIAL AND POSTAL ISSUES

Shizuka Kamei

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL POLICY Satoshi Arai

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL POLICY

Satoshi Arai

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM AND DECLINING BIRTHRATE Koichiro Genba

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM AND DECLINING BIRTHRATE

Koichiro Genba

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT REVITALIZATION Renho

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT REVITALIZATION

Renho