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Second Abe Cabinet

{{Infobox government cabinet

| cabinet_name = Second Abe Cabinet

| cabinet_type =

| cabinet_number = 96th

| jurisdiction = Japan

| flag = Flag of Japan.svg

| flag_border = true

| incumbent = 26 December 2012 – 24 December 2014

| image = 300px

| caption = Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (front row, centre) with the newly-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, December 26, 2012

| date_formed = December 26, 2012

| date_dissolved = December 24, 2014

| government_head = Shinzō Abe

| government_head_history =

| deputy_government_head = Tarō Asō

| state_head = Emperor Akihito

| members_number =

| former_members_number =

| total_number =

| political_party = Liberal Democratic–New Komeito Coalition

| legislature_status = Divided Diet (Until 2013)
HoR: Coalition supermajority
HoC: Coalition minority (Before 2013), majority (After 2013)

| opposition_cabinet =

| opposition_party = Democratic Party of Japan

| opposition_leader = Banri Kaieda

| election = 2012 general election
2013 councillors election

| last_election =

| legislature_term =

| budget =

| advice_and_consent1 =

| incoming_formation =

| outgoing_formation =

| predecessor = Noda Cabinet

| successor = Third Abe Cabinet

}}

The Second Abe Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from December 2012 to December 2014. Following the return to power of the LDP in the 2012 general election, Abe, as party president, was elected Prime Minister by the National Diet on December 26, 2012, and presented his cabinet for swearing in by the Emperor later that day. Abe formed a coalition with the New Komeito Party, which has partnered with the LDP since the late 1990s, appointing former leader Akihiro Ota as Minister of Land. Together the two parties controlled a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives, allowing the new government in most matters to override the veto of the upper house which was controlled by the opposition parties until July 2013.[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/asia/shinzo-abe-selected-as-japans-prime-minister.html?_r=0 New York Times, "Ex-Premier Is Chosen to Govern Japan Again," 26 December 2012]{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20842840|title=BBC News – Japan's Shinzo Abe unveils cabinet after voted in as PM|work=BBC News|date=26 December 2012|accessdate=8 December 2016}}

This cabinet was the most stable in post-war Japanese history, with no ministerial changes for 617 days until Abe conducted a reshuffle on September 3, 2014. The core ministers for Finance, Foreign Affairs, Economic Revival, Education, Land and the Chief Cabinet Secretary were all kept in post. In addition, Abe promoted 3 women to cabinet, matching the Koizumi cabinet's record of 5 women ministers.{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-boosts-number-of-women-in-cabinet-but-retains-key-figures-in-reshuffle-2/|title=Abe keeps core intact in Cabinet shake-up|date=3 September 2014|work=Japan Times|accessdate=8 December 2016}}

Following the 2014 general election, the Second Abe cabinet was dissolved on December 24, 2014, and replaced with the Third Abe cabinet.

Election of the prime minister

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|+ 26 December 2012

colspan="4"| House of Representatives
align="left" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="100"| Choice

! colspan="2"| Vote

width="415"| Parties

! width="100"| Votes

style="background:lightgreen;"

| width="1" bgcolor="green"|

| align="left"| {{tick}}Shinzō Abe

| LDP (294), NKP (31), Independents (3)

| {{Composition bar|328|480|hex=green}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Banri Kaieda

| DPJ (57)

| {{Composition bar|57|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Shintaro Ishihara

| JRP (54)

| {{Composition bar|54|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Yoshimi Watanabe

| YP (18)

| {{Composition bar|18|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Kazuo Shii

| Communist (8)

| {{Composition bar|8|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Yuko Mori

| PLP (7)

| {{Composition bar|7|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Mizuho Fukushima

| SDP (2)

| {{Composition bar|2|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="red"|

| align="left"| Shozaburo Jimi

| PNP (1)

| {{Composition bar|1|480|hex=red}}

bgcolor="gray"|

| align="left"| Abstentions

| Independents (2)

| {{Composition bar|2|480|hex=gray}}

colspan="4"| Source: [http://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_kaigiroku.nsf/html/kaigiroku/000118220121226001.htm 182nd Diet, December 26 House of Representatives plenary session] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918114218/http://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_kaigiroku.nsf/html/kaigiroku/000118220121226001.htm |date=2016-09-18 }}

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|+ 182nd Diet, 26 December 2012 House of Councillors plenary session

colspan="3" | Designation of a prime ministerReuters, December 26, 2012: [http://jp.reuters.com/article/zhaesmb-idJPTK058146720121226 安倍自民総裁を新首相に選出、26日中に新内閣発足へ　首相再登板は64年ぶり]House of Councillors, [http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/touhyoulist/touhyoulist.html Plenary session voting results by Diet (from 142nd onwards)], [http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/vote/182/vote_ind.htm 182nd Diet]: PM designation [http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/vote/182/182-1226-v001.pdf first round result], [http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/vote/182/182-1226-v002.pdf runoff result]
CandidateFirst roundRunoff
{{tick}} Shinzō Abe107107
Banri Kaieda8796
Yoshimi Watanabe11–
Yūko Mori8–
Kazuo Shii6–
Mizuho Fukushima5–
Shōzaburō Jimi3–
Shintarō Ishihara3–
Shizuka Kamei1–
Invalid votes01
Blank ballots330
Total votes cast || 234
(→majority at 118) || 234

Lists of ministers

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R = Member of the House of Representatives


C = Member of the House of Councillors

= Cabinet =

class="wikitable"

|+ Second Abe Cabinet from December 26, 2012 to September 3, 2014

! Portfolio

! colspan=3 | Minister

! colspan=2 | Term

Prime Minister

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Shinzō Abe

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 16, 2020

Deputy Prime Minister
Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation and Countering Yen Appreciation

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Tarō Asō

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 4, 2021

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
Minister of State for Decentralization Reform
Minister in charge of Regional Revitalization
Minister in charge of Regional Government

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yoshitaka Shindō

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of Justice

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Sadakazu Tanigaki

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of Foreign Affairs

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Fumio Kishida

| R

| December 26, 2012 – August 3, 2017

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding
Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Hakubun Shimomura

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 7, 2015

Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Norihisa Tamura

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yoshimasa Hayashi

| C

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation Facilitation Corporation
Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact caused by the Nuclear Accident
Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Toshimitsu Motegi

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Komeito}}" |

| Akihiro Ota

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 7, 2015

Minister of the Environment
Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Nobuteru Ishihara

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of Defence

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Itsunori Onodera

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Chief Cabinet Secretary
Minister in charge of Strengthening National Security

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yoshihide Suga

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 16, 2021

Minister of Reconstruction
Minister in charge of Comprehensive Policy Coordination for Revival from the Nuclear
Accident at Fukushima

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Takumi Nemoto

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue
Minister in charge of Building National Resilience
Minister of State for Disaster Management

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Keiji Furuya

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Space Policy
Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy
Minister in charge of Ocean Policy and Territorial Issues

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Ichita Yamamoto

| C

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister in charge of Support for Women's Empowerment and Child-Rearing
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate
Minister of State for Gender Equality

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Masako Mori

| C

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization
Minister in charge of Total Reform of Social Security and Tax
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Akira Amari

| R

| December 26, 2012 – January 28, 2016

Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister in charge of "Cool Japan" Strategy
Minister in charge of "Challenge Again" Initiative
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Tomomi Inada

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 3, 2014

colspan=5|Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs – House of Representatives)

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Katsunobu Kato

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 7, 2015

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs – House of Councillors)

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Hiroshige Seko

| C

| December 26, 2012 – August 13, 2016

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Bureaucrat)

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |

| Kazuhiro Sugita

| –

| December 26, 2012 – October 4, 2021

= Reshuffled cabinet =

{{Infobox government cabinet

| cabinet_name = Second Abe Cabinet
(Reshuffle)

| cabinet_type =

| cabinet_number = 96th

| jurisdiction = Japan

| flag = Flag of Japan.svg

| flag_border = true

| incumbent =

| image = 300px

| caption = Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (front row, centre) with his reshuffled cabinet inside the Kantei, September 3, 2014

| date_formed = September 3, 2014

| date_dissolved = December 24, 2014

| government_head = Shinzō Abe

| government_head_history =

| deputy_government_head = Tarō Asō

| state_head = Emperor Akihito

| members_number =

| former_members_number =

| total_number =

| political_party = Liberal Democratic–New Komeito Coalition

| legislature_status = Divided Diet (Until 2013)
HoR: Coalition supermajority
HoC: Coalition minority (Before 2013), majority (After 2013)

| opposition_cabinet =

| opposition_party = Democratic Party of Japan

| opposition_leader = Banri Kaieda

| election = 2012 general election
2013 councillors election

| last_election =

| legislature_term =

| budget =

| advice_and_consent1 =

| incoming_formation =

| outgoing_formation =

| predecessor = Second Abe Cabinet

| successor = Third Abe Cabinet

}}

class="wikitable"

|+ Second Abe Cabinet from September 3, 2014 to December 24, 2014

! Portfolio

! colspan=3 | Minister

! colspan=2 | Term

Prime Minister

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Shinzō Abe

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 16, 2020

Deputy Prime Minister
Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Tarō Asō

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 4, 2021

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Sanae Takaichi

| R

| September 3, 2014 – August 3, 2017

rowspan=2| Minister of Justice

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Midori Matsushima

| R

| September 3, 2014 – October 20, 2014

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yōko Kamikawa

| R

| October 20, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Minister of Foreign Affairs

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Fumio Kishida

| R

| December 26, 2012 – August 3, 2017

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding
Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Hakubun Shimomura

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 7, 2015

Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yasuhisa Shiozaki

| R

| September 3, 2014 – August 3, 2017

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Koya Nishikawa

| R

| September 3, 2014 – February 23, 2015

rowspan=2| Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness
Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact caused by the
Nuclear Accident
Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning
Facilitation Corporation

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yūko Obuchi

| R

| September 3, 2014 – October 20, 2014

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yoichi Miyazawa

| C

| October 20, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Minister in charge of Water Cycle Policy

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Komeito}}" |

| Akihiro Ota

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 7, 2015

Minister of the Environment
Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yoshio Mochizuki

| R

| September 3, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Minister of Defence
Minister in charge of Security Legislation

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Akinori Eto

| R

| September 3, 2014 – December 24, 2014

Chief Cabinet Secretary
Minister in charge of Alleviating the Burden of the Bases in Okinawa

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Yoshihide Suga

| R

| December 26, 2012 – September 16, 2020

Minister of Reconstruction
Minister in charge of Comprehensive Policy Coordination for Revival from the Nuclear
Accident at Fukushima

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Wataru Takeshita

| R

| September 3, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue
Minister in charge of Ocean Policy and Territorial Issues
Minister in charge of Building National Resilience
Minister of State for Disaster Management

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Eriko Yamatani

| C

| September 3, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Space Policy
Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy
Minister in charge of "Challenge Again" Initiative
Minister in charge of "Cool Japan" Strategy

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Shunichi Yamaguchi

| R

| September 3, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Minister in charge of Support for Women's Empowerment
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate
Minister of State for Gender Equality

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Haruko Arimura

| C

| September 3, 2014 – October 7, 2015

Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization
Minister in charge of Total Reform of Social Security and Tax
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Akira Amari

| R

| December 26, 2012 – January 28, 2016

Minister in charge of Overcoming Population Decline and Vitalizing Local Economy in Japan
Minister of State for the National Strategic Special Zones

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Shigeru Ishiba

| R

| September 3, 2014 – August 3, 2016

colspan=5|Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs – House of Representatives)

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Katsunobu Kato

| R

| December 26, 2012 – October 7, 2015

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs – House of Councillors)

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |

| Hiroshige Seko

| C

| December 26, 2012 – August 13, 2016

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Bureaucrat)

! style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |

| Kazuhiro Sugita

| –

| December 26, 2012 – October 4, 2021

== Changes ==

  • October 20 – Justice Minister Midori Matsushima and Economy Minister Yūko Obuchi, both resigned due to campaign finance scandals, and were replaced with Yōko Kamikawa and Yoichi Miyazawa, respectively. This reduced the number of women in cabinet to 4.{{cite web|url=http://www.nippon.com/en/genre/politics/l00071/|title=Abe Cabinet Rocked by Double Resignation|date=20 October 2014|work=Nippon.com|accessdate=8 December 2016}}

References

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External links

Pages at the Kantei (English website):

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160914064712/http://japan.kantei.go.jp/96_abe/cabinetlist1/daijin/index_e.html List of Ministers December 2012 – September 2014]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160914064727/http://japan.kantei.go.jp/96_abe/meibo/daijin/index_e.html List of Ministers September 2014 – December 2014]

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