First Mori Cabinet

First Mori Cabinet
85th Cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori (front row, centre) with the newly-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, April 5, 2000
Date formed	April 5, 2000
Date dissolved	July 4, 2000
People and organisations
Head of state	Emperor Akihito
Head of government	Yoshirō Mori
Member party	LDP-NKP-NCP coalition
Status in legislature	Majority coalition
Opposition party	Democratic Party of Japan
Opposition leader	Yukio Hatoyama
History
Predecessor	Obuchi Cabinet (Second Reshuffle)
Successor	Second Mori Cabinet

The First Mori Cabinet briefly governed Japan between April and July 2000, after the sudden incapacitation of Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi and his replacement by Yoshirō Mori, who had been LDP Secretary General. Mori called his government "the Japan revival cabinet", but made no personnel changes when he took office, pledging to retain Obuchi's ministers, maintain the 3-party coalition and continue his policies to try to revive the economy.^[1][2][3]

Mori proved an unpopular Prime Minister due to a series of gaffes and the manner of his coming to power, and called early general elections for June 2000 to pre-empt a continuing decline in the LDP's poll numbers.^[4][5] In the elections, the LDP lost the majority that it had built up through opposition defections since 1996, but the coalition held enough seats to retain government.^[6] Therefore, the cabinet was dissolved in July when Mori was re-elected by the National Diet and replaced with the Second Mori Cabinet.

Election of the prime minister

5 April 2000

House of Representatives Absolute majority (251/500) required
Choice		First Vote
		Votes
	YYoshirō Mori	335 / 500
	Yukio Hatoyama	95 / 500
	Others and Abstentions (Including blank ballots)	70 / 500
Source Diet Minutes - 147th Session Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine

List of ministers

  Liberal Democratic
  New Komeito
  New Conservative
  Independent
R = Member of the House of Representatives
C = Member of the House of Councillors

Cabinet

First Mori Cabinet from April 5, 2000 to July 4, 2000

Portfolio	Minister			Term of Office
Prime Minister		Yoshirō Mori	R	April 5, 2000 - April 26, 2001
Minister of Justice		Hideo Usui	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Foreign Affairs		Yōhei Kōno	R	October 5, 1999 - April 26, 2001
Minister of Finance		Kiichi Miyazawa	R	July 30, 1998 - April 26, 2001
Minister of Education Director of the Science and Technology Agency		Hirofumi Nakasone	C	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Health and Welfare		Yuya Niwa	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries		Tokuichiro Tamazawa	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of International Trade and Industry		Takashi Fukaya	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Transport Director of the Hokkaido Development Agency		Toshihiro Nikai	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications		Eita Yashiro	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Labour		Takamori Makino	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Construction Director of the National Land Agency		Masaaki Nakayama	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Minister of Home Affairs Director of the National Public Safety Commission		Kosuke Hori	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Chief Cabinet Secretary Director of the Okinawa Development Agency		Mikio Aoki	C	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Chairman of the Financial Reconstruction Commission		Sadakazu Tanigaki	R	February 25, 2000 - July 4, 2000
Director of the Management and Coordination Agency		Kunihiro Tsuzuki	C	October 5, 1999 - December 5, 2000
Director of the Japan Defense Agency		Tsutomu Kawara	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Director of the Economic Planning Agency		Taichi Sakaiya	-	July 30, 1998 - December 5, 2000
Director of the Environment Agency		Kayoko Shimizu	C	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Deputy Secretaries
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs - House of Representatives)		Fukushiro Nukaga	R	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs - House of Councillors)		Soichiro Matsutani	C	October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Bureaucrat)		Teijiro Furukawa	-	February 24, 1995 - September 22, 2003

References

1. "Announcement by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori". Kantei. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
2. Schmetzer, Uli (6 April 2000). "Many Japanese Not Sold On Leader They Didn't Choose". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
3. "Mori pledges Japan 'rebirth'". BBC News. 7 April 2000. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
4. "Mori defies his poll rating and calls election". Irish Times. 3 June 2000. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
5. "Mori set to dissolve Diet for elections on June 25". The Japan Times. 2 June 2000. Archived from the original on 17 November 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
6. French, Howard W. (26 June 2000). "GOVERNING PARTY IN JAPAN SUFFERS ELECTION SETBACK". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

External links

Pages at the Kantei (English website):

• Mori Administration
• List of Ministers