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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

FOREIGN MINISTER Seiji Maehara

FOREIGN MINISTER

Seiji Maehara

DEFENSE MINISTER Toshimi Kitazawa

DEFENSE MINISTER

Toshimi Kitazawa

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY Yoshito Sengoku

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY

Yoshito Sengoku

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 AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM Renho

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT REVITALIZATION AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM

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

JUSTICE MINISTER Minoru Yanagida

JUSTICE MINISTER

Minoru Yanagida

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 ECONOMY, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY Akihiro Ohata

MINISTER OF ECONOMY, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY

Akihiro Ohata

MINISTER OF LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM Sumio Mabuchi

MINISTER OF LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM

Sumio Mabuchi

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Ryu Matsumoto

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

Ryu Matsumoto

NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION CHAIRWOMAN Tomiko Okazaki

NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION CHAIRWOMAN

Tomiko Okazaki

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC AND FISCAL POLICY AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY Banri Kaieda

STATE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC AND FISCAL POLICY AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

Banri Kaieda