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Minister Of Finance (Japan)
The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Finance (Japan), Ministry of Finance. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council and is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. Until 2001, the Japanese title was . Both the current and previous title are translated as "Minister of Finance". The current minister is Katsunobu Katō, who took office on 1 October 2024. List of ministers Prewar (1900–1946) Postwar (1946–present) References

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Katsunobu Katō
Katsunobu Katō (加藤 勝信, ''Katō Katsunobu''; born 22 November 1955) is a Japanese politician. He was served as the Minister of Finance under Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba since October 2024. Previously, he was served as the three-time Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare under Shinzo Abe from 2017 to 2018 and from 2019 to 2020, and under Fumio Kishida from 2022 to 2023, and as the Chief Cabinet Secretary under Yoshihide Suga from 2020 to 2021. Belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party, he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2003. Born and raised in Tokyo and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Kato had a bureaucratic career in the Ministry of Finance before going into politics. Early life, family, and career Kato was born as Katsunobu Murosaki (室崎勝信) on 22 November 1955 in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Katsutoshi Murosaki, was an executive at Hino Motors. The family came from Shimane Prefecture, where his grandfather, Katsu ...
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Takahashi Korekiyo
Viscount was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan from 1921 to 1922 and Ministry of Finance (Japan), Minister of Finance when he was assassinated. He was also a member of the House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers and head of the Bank of Japan. Takahashi made many contributions to Japan's development during the early 20th century, including introducing its first patent system and securing foreign financing for the Russo-Japanese War. Following the onset of the Great Depression, he introduced controversial financial policies which included abandoning the gold standard, lowering interest rates, and using the Bank of Japan to finance deficit spending by the central government. His decision to cut government spending in 1935 led to unrest within the Japanese military, who assassinated him in February 1936. Takahashi's policies are credited for pulling Japan out of the Depression, but led to soaring inflation following his assassination, ...
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Eiichi Baba
was a bureaucrat and cabinet minister in early Shōwa period Japan. Biography Baba was born in what is now Minato, Tokyo as Eiichi Yamamoto, the son of an impoverished former samurai. He was adopted by Baba Ken, a railway engineer and took his surname. He graduated from the law school of Tokyo Imperial University, where one of his classmates was Gōtarō Ogawa and entered the Finance Ministry. He served in various posts within the ministry, including Director of the Yokohama Customs Office, Director of Accounts with the Japanese Resident-General of Korea, and from 1907 was with the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, rising to the position of Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau under the Takahashi administration in 1922. The following year, he was appointed to a seat in the House of Peers, where he became noted for his ability to arrange for compromise between the political factions and parties. The ''Rikken Seiyūkai'' party arranged for Baba to become president of th ...
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Machida Chūji
was a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. Biography Machida was born in Akita as the fourth son to a samurai in the service of Kubota Domain. However, his father died when he was three years old. He was raised by his grandparents until adopted by an uncle in 1875, to whose estate he succeeded. He moved to Tokyo and studied at preparatory schools for Tokyo Imperial University, where one of his classmates was Ichiki Kitokurō. Although he passed his examinations, he had frequent health problems in Tokyo, including bouts of beri-beri and was forced to return to Akita. In 1883, he was invited to become an editor for the ''Akita Sakegake Newspaper'', where he specialized in political topics and became acquainted with noted politician Inukai Tsuyoshi. In the summer of 1884, he returned to Tokyo, where he attended the law school of Tokyo Imperial University. One of his classmates at this time was Uchida Kosai and Hayashi Gonsuke. However, because of his f ...
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Sadanobu Fujii
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the mid-Edo period, famous for his financial reforms which saved the Shirakawa Domain, and similar reforms he undertook during his tenure as chief of the Tokugawa shogunate, from 1787 to 1793. Early life Matsudaira Sadanobu was the seventh son of Tokugawa Munetake, of the Tayasu branch of the Tokugawa clan. The Tayasu was one of the ''gosankyō'', the senior-most of the lesser cadet branches of the Shōgun's family, and was thus the grandson of the reform-minded eighth shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune. The Tayasu house stood apart from the other cadet branches resident in Edo Castle, living a more austere lifestyle, following the example set by Yoshimune—in Munetake's words, the praise of manly spirit (''masuraoburi'') as opposed to feminine spirit (''taoyameburi''). It also set itself apart from the other branches due to its history of thwarted political ambition—the founder, Munetake, had hoped to become his father's heir but was passed over for ...
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Chuzo Mitsuchi
Chuzo may refer to the following people: * Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama (1880-1954), Japanese landscape artist * Chuzo Tamotzu (1888-1975), Japanese painter * Antonio González Álvarez Antonio González Álvarez, commonly known as Chuzo (born 28 January 1940), is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender. Club career Born in Antequera, Málaga, Chuzo made his professional debuts with Atlético Madrid, first appe ...
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Kataoka Naoharu
was a Japanese entrepreneur and politician during the prewar period. He served as Minister of Commerce and Industry (1924), Minister of Finance (1927), and a member of the House of Peers (1930-1934). Biography Kataoka was born on October 13, 1859, in Tosa Province (present-day Kōchi Prefecture). He served as an official in the police department of Shiga Prefecture. In 1880, he was transferred to Tokyo, where he caught the attention of Itō Hirobumi and was recruited into the Home Ministry. However, in 1889, Kataoka was recruited away from a career to accept the post of vice president of Nippon Life Insurance Company, and subsequently served as president of the company from 1903 to 1919. He was also president of the Miyako Hotels chain from 1915, and served as a member of the board for the Kyōdō Bank and Kansai Railways. Kataoka returned to political life as a member of the Lower House of the Diet of Japan in the 1892 General Election, and was subsequently re-elected eig ...
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Seiji Hayami
Hayami Seiji () was a Japanese politician during the Taishō era. Career Hayami was Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Finance. In August 1925, he replaced Okazaki Kunisuke as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in Katō Takaaki Count was a Japanese politician, diplomat, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1924 until his death on 28 January 1926, during the period which historians have called " Taishō Democracy". He was also known as Katō Kōmei. Early life Katō was b ...'s second cabinet. He left the post in January 1926, after Katō's death. References {{Authority control Ministers of agriculture, forestry and fisheries of Japan Ministers of finance of Japan Year of birth missing Year of death missing ...
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Osachi Hamaguchi
Hamaguchi Osachi (Kyūjitai: ; Shinjitai: , 1 April 1870 – 26 August 1931) was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931. Nicknamed the due to his dignified demeanor and mane-like hair, Hamaguchi served as leading member of the liberal '' Rikken Minseitō'' (Constitutional Democratic Party) during the "Taishō Democracy" of interwar Japan. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1915 until his death. He initially survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist in 1930, but died about nine months later from a bacterial infection in his unhealed wounds. Early life and career Hamaguchi was born in Nagaoka District, Tosa Province (now part of Kōchi city, Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku). He was the third son of Minaguchi Tanehira, an official in the local forestry department, and took the Hamaguchi name on his marriage to Hamaguchi Natsuko in 1889. Hamaguchi graduated from the Law College of Tokyo Imperial Univ ...
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Junnosuke Inoue
was a Japanese financier and statesman of the Taisho and Showa eras. He was the 9th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He was assassinated during the League of Blood Incident in 1932. Biography Inoue was born in Ōita Prefecture. He graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1896, Inoue entered the Bank of Japan and in 1897 he was a BOJ trainee along with Hisaakira Hijikata. Both young men were sent by the bank to learn about British banking practices in London. From 1913-1919, Inoue was head of the Yokohama Specie Bank. Inoue was Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 13, 1919 – September 2, 1923 and again from May 10, 1927 – June 1, 1928.BOJList of Governors He was Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He briefly presided the Institute of Pacific Relations between Ray Lyman Wilbur nomination as United States Secretary of the Interior The United States secretary of the int ...
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Otohiko Ichiki
was a Japanese bureaucrat, politician, and central banker. He served as the minister of finance, the 10th governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the mayor of Tokyo City, and a member of the National Diet. Early life and education Ichiki was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture. He finished the local school, Middle School Zoshikan. He entered the Higher Middle School Zoshikan of Kagoshima too, but he dropped out for financial reason. He went to Tokyo in 1889 and stayed in 's house as a live-in student (Mr.Tajiri was an economist and financial bureaucracy). Ichiki finished the First Higher Middle School where was Tokyo in 1893. He graduated College of Law, Imperial University and entered Japanese Ministry of Finance in 1896. Career In 1922-1923, Ichiki was briefly finance minister in the cabinet of Katō Tomosaburō. As head of the Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and ...
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