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38 Records
1452–2025 Date range
31 Named people
1 Places
Chronological records 1452 Katsumoto Hosokawa 1452
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Shogunate Prime Minister of Japan
1887 Ito 1887
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 1st term
1888 Kiyotaka Kuroda 1888
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister
1892 Ito 1892
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 2nd term
1898 Ito 1898
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 3rd term
Okuma 1898
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 1st term
1900 Ito 1900
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 4th term
1901 Katsura 1901
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 1st term
1908 Katsura 1908
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 2nd term
1912 Katsura 1912
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 3rd term
1914 Okuma 1914
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 2nd term
1916 Matasake Terauchi 1916
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1918 Hara Kei 1918
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1919 Kei Hara 1919
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, the 1st commoner to be appointed
1927 Tanaka Giichi April 1927
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1929 Hamaguchi Osachi July 1929
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1931 Wakatsuki Reijiro April 1931
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
Tsuyoshi Inukai December 1931
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1932 Makoto Saito 15 May 1932
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1934 Okada Keisuke July 1934
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1936 Hirota Koki March 1936
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1937 Konoe Fumimaro 1937
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
Senjuro Hayashi 1937
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1939 Hiranuma Kiichiro January 1939
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
Abe Nobuyuki August 1939
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1940 Yonai Mitsumasa January 1940
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1941 Hideki Tojo 1941
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1944 Koiso Kuniaki July 1944
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1945 Suziki Kantaro April 1945
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
Kantaro Suzuki April 1945
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1954 Ichiro Hatoyama 10 December 1954
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 1st term
1955 Ichiro Hatoyama 22 November 1955
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 3rd term
1974 Takeo Miki 9 December 1974
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan
1980 Masayoshi Ito 12 June 1980
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed caretaker Prime Minister of Japan, after the death Masayoshi Ohira
1993 Morihiro Hosokaya 9 August 1993
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, heading a non-LDP coalition
1994 Tomiichi Murayama 30 June 1994
Government / Government of Japan
Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, heads minority Government
2009 Yukio Hatoyama 16 September 2009
Government / Government of Japan
Japans new Government under Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama takes office
2025 Sanae Takaichi 21 October 2025
Tokyo · Government / Government of Japan
Becomes Japan's first female prime minister.
Names involved Abe Nobuyuki Hamaguchi Osachi Hara Kei Hideki Tojo Hiranuma Kiichiro Hirota Koki Ichiro Hatoyama Ito Kantaro Suzuki Katsumoto Hosokawa Katsura Kei Hara Kiyotaka Kuroda Koiso Kuniaki Konoe Fumimaro Makoto Saito Masayoshi Ito Matasake Terauchi Morihiro Hosokaya Okada Keisuke Okuma Sanae Takaichi Senjuro Hayashi Suziki Kantaro Takeo Miki Tanaka Giichi Tomiichi Murayama Tsuyoshi Inukai Wakatsuki Reijiro Yonai Mitsumasa Yukio Hatoyama
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