Minister of Finance (Japan) explained

The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Finance. The minister is also a statutory member of the 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)

	Name	Took office	Left office
1		1885	1892
		1892	1895
2		1895	1895
3		1895	1896
4		1896	1898
5		1898	1898
6		1898	1898
7		1898	1900
8		1900	1901
9		1901	1901
10		1901	1906
11		1906	1908
12		1908	1908
		1908	1911
		1911	1912
	Wakatsuki Reijirō (1st)	1912	1913
	Takahashi Korekiyo (1st)	1913	1914
	Wakatsuki Reijirō (2nd)	1914	1915
		1915	1916
		1916	1916
	Kazue Shōda (1st)	1916	1918
	Takahashi Korekiyo (2nd)	1918	1922
		1922	1923
	Junnosuke Inoue (1st)	1923	1924
	Kazue Shōda (2nd)	1924	1924
		1924	1925
		1925	1925
		1925	1927
	Takahashi Korekiyo (3rd)	1927	1927
		1927	1929
	Junnosuke Inoue (2nd)	1929	1931
	Takahashi Korekiyo (4th)	1931	1934
		1934	1934
	Takahashi Korekiyo (5th)	1934	1936
		1936	1936
		1936	1937
	Toyotaro Yuki[1]	1937	1937
	Okinori Kaya (1st)	1937	1938
		1938	1939
	Sotaro Ishiwata (1st)	1939	1939
		1939	1940
		1940	1940
		1940	1941
		1941	1941
	Okinori Kaya (2nd)	1941	1944
	Sotaro Ishiwata (2nd)	1944	1945
		1945	1945
		1945	1946

Postwar (1946–present)

Finance Minister				Term of office			Prime Minister
	Portrait		width=180px	Name	Took office	Left office	Days
32			Tanzan Ishibashi	May 22, 1946	May 24, 1947			Shigeru Yoshida
-			Tetsu Katayama (Acting)	May 24, 1947	June 1, 1947			Tetsu Katayama
33			Shōtarō Yano	June 1, 1947	June 25, 1947
34			Takeo Kurusu	June 25, 1947	March 10, 1948
35			Tokutarō Kitamura	March 10, 1948	October 15, 1948			Hitoshi Ashida
36			Sanroku Izumiyama	October 19, 1948	December 14, 1948			Shigeru Yoshida
37			Shinzō Ōya (Interim)	December 14, 1948	February 16, 1949
38			Hayato Ikeda	February 16, 1949	October 30, 1952
39			Tadaharu Mukai	October 30, 1952	May 21, 1953
40			Sankurō Ogasawara	May 21, 1953	December 10, 1954
41			Hisato Ichimada	December 10, 1954	November 22, 1955			Ichirō Hatoyama
				November 22, 1955	December 23, 1956
(38)			Hayato Ikeda	December 23, 1956	July 10, 1957			Tanzan Ishibashi
							Nobusuke Kishi
(41)			Hisato Ichimada	July 10, 1957	June 12, 1958
42			Eisaku Satō	June 12, 1958	July 19, 1960
43			Mikio Mizuta	July 19, 1960	July 18, 1962			Hayato Ikeda
44			Kakuei Tanaka	July 18, 1962	June 3, 1965
							Eisaku Satō
45			Takeo Fukuda	June 3, 1965	December 3, 1966
(43)			Mikio Mizuta	December 3, 1966	November 30, 1968
(45)			Takeo Fukuda	November 30, 1968	July 5, 1971
(43)			Mikio Mizuta	July 5, 1971	July 7, 1972
46			Koshiro Ueki	July 7, 1972	December 22, 1972			Kakuei Tanaka
47			Kiichi Aichi	December 22, 1972	November 23, 1973
(45)			Takeo Fukuda	November 25, 1973	July 16, 1974
48			Masayoshi Ōhira	July 16, 1974	December 24, 1976
							Takeo Miki
49			Hideo Bo	December 24, 1976	November 28, 1977			Takeo Fukuda
50			Tatsuo Murayama	November 28, 1977	December 7, 1978
51			Ippei Kaneko	December 7, 1978	November 9, 1979			Masayoshi Ōhira
52			Noboru Takeshita	November 9, 1979	July 17, 1980
53			Michio Watanabe	July 17, 1980	November 27, 1982			Zenkō Suzuki
(52)			Noboru Takeshita	November 27, 1982	July 22, 1986			Yasuhiro Nakasone
54			Kiichi Miyazawa	July 22, 1986	December 9, 1988
							Noboru Takeshita
(52)			Noboru Takeshita (Acting)	December 9, 1988	December 27, 1988
(50)			Tatsuo Murayama	December 27, 1988	August 10, 1989
							Sosuke Uno
55			Ryutaro Hashimoto	August 10, 1989	October 14, 1991			Toshiki Kaifu
-			Toshiki Kaifu (Acting)	October 14, 1991	November 5, 1991
56			Tsutomu Hata	November 5, 1991	December 12, 1992			Kiichi Miyazawa
57			Yoshiro Hayashi	December 12, 1992	August 9, 1993
58			Hirohisa Fujii	August 9, 1993	June 30, 1994			Morihiro Hosokawa
							Tsutomu Hata
59			Masayoshi Takemura	June 30, 1994	January 11, 1996			Tomiichi Murayama
60			Wataru Kubo	January 11, 1996	November 7, 1996			Ryutaro Hashimoto
61			Hiroshi Mitsuzuka	November 7, 1996	January 28, 1998
62			Hikaru Matsunaga	January 30, 1998	July 30, 1998
(54)			Kiichi Miyazawa	July 30, 1998	April 26, 2001			Keizo Obuchi
							Yoshirō Mori
63			Masajuro Shiokawa	April 26, 2001	September 22, 2003			Junichiro Koizumi
64			Sadakazu Tanigaki	September 22, 2003	September 26, 2006
65			Kōji Omi	September 26, 2006	August 27, 2007			Shinzō Abe
66			Fukushiro Nukaga	August 27, 2007	August 2, 2008
							Yasuo Fukuda
67		60px	Bunmei Ibuki	August 2, 2008	September 24, 2008
68		60px	Shōichi Nakagawa	September 24, 2008	February 18, 2009			Tarō Asō
69			Kaoru Yosano	February 18, 2009	September 16, 2009
(58)			Hirohisa Fujii	September 16, 2009	January 6, 2010			Yukio Hatoyama
70			Naoto Kan	January 6, 2010	June 8, 2010
71			Yoshihiko Noda	June 8, 2010	September 2, 2011			Naoto Kan
72			Jun Azumi	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012			Yoshihiko Noda
73			Koriki Jojima	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012
74			Tarō Asō	December 26, 2012	October 4, 2021			Shinzō Abe
							Yoshihide Suga
75				October 4, 2021	October 1, 2024			Fumio Kishida
76				October 1, 2024	Incumbent			Shigeru Ishiba

Notes and References

1. Fuji Ginkō. (1967). Banking in modern Japan, p. 125.