Fourth Yoshida Cabinet
{{Short description|Cabinet of Japan (1952–1953)}}
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Ryokufūkai|legislature_status=House of Representatives: Majority
House of Councillors: Coalition majority|opposition_cabinet=|opposition_parties=Kaishintō
Rightist Socialist Party of Japan
Leftist Socialist Party of Japan
Japanese Communist Party
Labourers and Farmers Party|opposition_leader=|election=1952 general election
1953 councillors election|total_number=|legislature_term=15th-16th National Diet|budget=|advice_and_consent1=|incoming_formation=|outgoing_formation=|predecessor=Third Yoshida Cabinet
(Third Reshuffle)|successor=Fifth Yoshida Cabinet}}
The Fourth Yoshida Cabinet was the 50th Cabinet of Japan. It was headed by Shigeru Yoshida from October 30, 1952 to May 21, 1953.
Cabinet
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! scope="col" width="20%" |Portfolio ! scope="col" width="15%" |Name ! colspan="2" scope="col" width="13.5%" |Political party ! scope="col" width="12.5%" |Term start ! scope="col" width="12.5%" |Term end |
| style="text-align: left;" |Prime Minister
| width="0.5%" style="background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Deputy Prime Minister (from November 28, 1952) Minister of State | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Justice
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Finance
|Mukai Tadaharu | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Education
|Okano Kiyohide | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Health
|Yamagata Katsumi | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| rowspan="3" |Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
|Ogasawara Sankurō | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |December 5, 1952 |
| Hirokawa Kōzen
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |December 5, 1952 |March 3, 1953 |
| Tako Ichimin
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |March 3, 1953 |May 21, 1953 |
| rowspan="2" |Minister of International Trade and Industry
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |November 29, 1952 |
| Ogasawara Sankurō
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |November 29, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Transport
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Posts
|Takase Sōtarō | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of Labor
|Totsuka Kuichirō | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| rowspan="2" |Minister of Construction Director of the Hokkaido Development Agency | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |February 10, 1953 |
| Totsuka Kuichirō
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |February 10, 1953 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of State Director of the Administrative Management Agency Director of the Autonomy Agency |Honda Ichirō | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of State Commissioner of the National Safety Agency |Kimura Tōkutarō | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| rowspan="3" |Minister of State Director of the Economic Deliberation Agency | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |November 29, 1952 |
| Ogasawara Sankurō
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |November 29, 1952 |March 3, 1953 |
| Mikio Mizuta
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |March 3, 1953 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of State
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| Minister of State
|Hayashiya Kamejirō | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
| rowspan="2" |Chief Cabinet Secretary
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |October 30, 1952 |March 24, 1953 |
| Kenji Fukunaga
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |March 24, 1953 |May 21, 1953 |
| Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
|Satō Tatsuo | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent}};" | |Independent |October 30, 1952 |March 24, 1953 |
| rowspan="3" |Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
|Kanno Yoshimaru | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent}};" | |Independent |October 30, 1952 |March 23, 1953 |
| Tanaka Fuwazō
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)}};" | |March 28, 1953 |May 21, 1953 |
| Eguchi Mitoru
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent}};" | |Independent |October 30, 1952 |May 21, 1953 |
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| colspan="6" |Source:{{Cite web |title=Fourth Yoshida Cabinet |url=http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/rekidai/kakuryo/50.html |website=Prime Minister's Official Residence}} |