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Kan Cabinet (Formed June 8, 2010)

MINISTER OF HEALTH, LABOR AND WELFARE

Ritsuo Hosokawa

MINISTER OF HEALTH, LABOR AND WELFARE Ritsuo Hosokawa

Date of birth: Aug. 8, 1943

Party: Democratic Party of Japan

Electoral district: Lower House; Saitama No. 3 (seventh term)

Hosokawa has served as senior vice health and labor minister since the DPJ took power last year and has been working to improve the rights of temporary workers. When it was still in the opposition, the DPJ designated him as the justice minister in its shadow Cabinet.

Hosokawa is known as a prolific submitter of bills in the Diet. He is also a member of a nonpartisan group of lawmakers promoting local suffrage for permanent foreign residents.

Elected to the Lower House for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, Hosokawa joined the DPJ in 1996.

In the historic 2009 general election, he won by a landslide, stealing support from supporters of the then ruling Liberal Democratic Party.


 

Subsequent changes

PRIME MINISTER Naoto Kan

PRIME MINISTER

Naoto Kan

FINANCE MINISTER Yoshihiko Noda

FINANCE MINISTER

Yoshihiko Noda

DEFENSE MINISTER Toshimi Kitazawa

DEFENSE MINISTER

Toshimi Kitazawa

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL POLICY Koichiro Genba

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL POLICY

Koichiro Genba

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT REVITALIZATION Renho

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT REVITALIZATION

Renho

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF FINANCIAL AND POSTAL ISSUES Shozaburo Jimi

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF FINANCIAL AND POSTAL ISSUES

Shozaburo Jimi

MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS Yoshihiro Katayama

MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Yoshihiro Katayama

EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER Yoshiaki Takaki

EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER

Yoshiaki Takaki

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES Michihiko Kano

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES

Michihiko Kano

MINISTER OF LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM Akihiro Ohata

MINISTER OF LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM

Akihiro Ohata

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Ryu Matsumoto

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

Ryu Matsumoto

MINISTER OF ECONOMY, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY Banri Kaieda

MINISTER OF ECONOMY, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY

Banri Kaieda

JUSTICE MINISTER Satsuki Eda

JUSTICE MINISTER

Satsuki Eda

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY Yukio Edano

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY

Yukio Edano

NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN Kansei Nakano

NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN

Kansei Nakano

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC AND FISCAL POLICY Kaoru Yosano

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC AND FISCAL POLICY

Kaoru Yosano

FOREIGN MINISTER Takeaki Matsumoto

FOREIGN MINISTER

Takeaki Matsumoto