Murayama Cabinet

The Murayama Cabinet (村山内閣, Murayama naikaku) governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama from 1994 until a 1995 Cabinet Reshuffle. Murayama was elected prime minister by the National Diet on 29 June 1994 after the threat of a no-confidence vote had brought down the previous minority Hata Cabinet. Murayama's and his cabinet's formal investiture by the Emperor took place one day later.

The coalition cabinet consisted of 13 Liberal Democrats, six Socialists (including the Prime Minister) and two members of New Party Sakigake. All ministers were members of the Diet, the only woman in the cabinet was science and technology minister Makiko Tanaka.

Ministers of State

Murayama Cabinet from 30 June 1994 to 8 August 1995
Portfolio	Minister	Party	Diet membership
Prime Minister	Tomiichi Murayama	JSP	HR, Ōita 1
Designated Minister of State according to Art. 9, Cabinet Law (Deputy Prime Minister) Foreign Affairs	Yōhei Kōno	LDP	HR, Kanagawa 3
Justice	Isao Maeda	LDP	HC, Wakayama
Finance	Masayoshi Takemura	NPS	HR, Shiga At-large
Education	Kaoru Yosano	LDP	HR, Tokyo 1
Health and Welfare	Shōichi Ide	NPS	HR, Nagano 2
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	Taichirō Ōgawara	LDP	HC, national proportional
International Trade and Industry	Ryūtarō Hashimoto	LDP	HR, Okayama 2
Transport	Shizuka Kamei	LDP	HR, Hiroshima 3
Posts and Telecommunications	Shun Ōide	JSP	HR, Kanagawa 4
Labour	Mansō Hamamoto	JSP	HC, Hiroshima
Construction	Kōken Nosaka	JSP	HR, Tottori At-large
Home Affairs Public Safety	Hiromu Nonaka	LDP	HR, Kyoto 2
Cabinet Secretariat	Kōzō Igarashi	JSP	HR, Hokkaidō 2
Management and Coordination	Tsuruo Yamaguchi	JSP	HR, Gunma 3
Hokkaidō Development Okinawa Development	Sadayoshi Ozato (until 20 January 1995)	LDP	HR, Kagoshima 2
Hokkaidō Development Okinawa Development	Kiyoshi Ozawa (from 20 January 1995)	LDP	HR, Tokyo 7
Defense	Masahiko Kōmura	LDP	HR, Yamaguchi 2
Economic Planning	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	LDP	HR, Iwate 1
Science and Technology	Makiko Tanaka	LDP	HR, Niigata 3
Environment	Shin Sakurai (until 14 August 1994)	LDP	HR, Niigata 3
Environment	Sōhei Miyashita (from 14 August 1994)	LDP	HR, Nagano 3
Land	Kiyoshi Ozawa	LDP	HR, Tokyo 7
Disaster management (from January 20, 1995)	Sadayoshi Ozato	LDP	HR, Kagoshima 2

Other positions

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries	Hiroyuki Sonoda	NPH	HR, Kumamoto 2
	Nobuo Ishihara (until 24 February 1995)	–	–
	Teiichirō Furukawa (from 24 February 1995)	–	–
Legislation Bureau	Takao Ōde	–	–

External links

Kantei/Cabinet of Japan: Murayama Cabinet (Japanese)
The New York Times, 1 July 1994: Japan's First Socialist Premier Appoints a Familiar Cabinet
The Chicago Tribune, 26 June 1994: Japan's Short Era of Political Reform may be over

Cabinets of Japan

Under the cabinet edicts of 1885 and 1889
(individually responsible to the Emperor,
appointed prime minister)

Oligarchic "transcendent" (non-/anti-partisan) cabinets	Itō I Kuroda (Sanjō interim) Yamagata I Matsukata I Itō II Matsukata II Itō III Ōkuma I Yamagata II Itō IV Katsura I Saionji I Katsura II Saionji II Katsura III Yamamoto I Ōkuma II Terauchi

Interwar period/"Taishō democracy" party cabinets	Hara Takahashi To. Katō Yamamoto II Kiyoura Ta. Katō Wakatsuki I G. Tanaka Hamaguchi Wakatsuki II Inukai

Wartime "national unity" cabinets	Saitō Okada Hirota Hayashi Konoe I Hiranuma N. Abe Yonai Konoe II Konoe III Tōjō Koiso K. Suzuki

Under allied occupation	Higashikuni Shidehara Yoshida I (R)

Under the Constitution of Japan
(collectively responsible to the National Diet,
elected prime minister)

Occupation period multi-party system	Katayama Ashida Yoshida II Yoshida III (R1) (R2) (R3) Yoshida IV Yoshida V I. Hatoyama I I. Hatoyama II

LDP dominance	I. Hatoyama III Ishibashi Kishi I (R) Kishi II (R) Ikeda I Ikeda II (R1) (R2) (R3) Ikeda III (R) Satō I (R1) (R2) (R3) Satō II (R1) (R2) Satō III (R) K. Tanaka I K. Tanaka II (R1) (R2) Miki (R) T. Fukuda (R) Ōhira I Ōhira II Z. Suzuki (R) Nakasone I Nakasone II (R1) (R2) Nakasone III Takeshita (R) Uno Kaifu I Kaifu II (R) Miyazawa (R)

"Lost decades" coalition cabinets	Hosokawa Hata Murayama (R) Hashimoto I Hashimoto II (R) Obuchi (R1) (R2) Mori I Mori II (R) Koizumi I (R1) (R2) Koizumi II (R) Koizumi III (R) S. Abe I (R) Y. Fukuda (R) Asō Y. Hatoyama Kan (R1) (R2) Noda (R1) (R2) (R3) S. Abe II (R) S. Abe III (R1) (R2)

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