Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The  is a member of the Cabinet of Japan. The minister is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan.

The current minister is Yohei Matsumoto, who took office on 21 October 2025.

## List of ministers of education, culture, sports, science and technology (2001–)

|colspan=4|Minister|colspan=3|Term of office|style="width:160px;" rowspan=2 colspan=2|Prime Minister|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||||||||||
||Nobutaka Machimura|January 6, 2001|April 26, 2001|||||||
|Yoshiro Mori||||||||||
|2||||||||||
||Atsuko Tōyama|April 26, 2001|September 22, 2003|||||||
|rowspan=4|Junichiro Koizumi|||||||||
|3||||||||||
||Takeo Kawamura|September 22, 2003|September 27, 2004|||||||
|4||||||||||
||Nariaki Nakayama|September 27, 2004|October 31, 2005|||||||
|5||||||||||
||Kenji Kosaka|October 31, 2005|September 26, 2006|||||||
|6||||||||||
||Bunmei Ibuki|September 26, 2006|September 26, 2007|||||||
|Shinzo Abe||||||||||
|7||||||||||
||Kisaburo Tokai|September 26, 2007|August 2, 2008|||||||
|rowspan=2|Yasuo Fukuda|||||||||
|8||||||||||
||Tsuneo Suzuki|August 2, 2008|September 24, 2008|||||||
|9||||||||||
||Ryū Shionoya|September 24, 2008|September 16, 2009|||||||
|Taro Aso||||||||||
|rowspan=2|10|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Tatsuo Kawabata|rowspan=2|September 16, 2009|rowspan=2|September 17, 2010|rowspan=2||
|Yukio Hatoyama||||||||||
|rowspan=2|Naoto Kan|||||||||
|11||||||||||
||Yoshiaki Takaki|September 17, 2010|September 2, 2011|||||||
|12||||||||||
||Masaharu Nakagawa|September 2, 2011|January 13, 2012|||||||
|rowspan=3|Yoshihiko Noda|||||||||
|13||||||||||
||Hirofumi Hirano|January 13, 2012|October 1, 2012|||||||
|14||||||||||
||Makiko Tanaka|October 1, 2012|December 26, 2012|||||||
|15||||||||||
||Hakubun Shimomura|December 26, 2012|October 7, 2015|||||||
|rowspan=5|Shinzo Abe|||||||||
|16||||||||||
||Hiroshi Hase|October 7, 2015|August 3, 2016|||||||
|17||||||||||
||Hirokazu Matsuno|August 3, 2016|August 3, 2017|||||||
|18||||||||||
||Yoshimasa Hayashi|August 3, 2017|October 2, 2018|||||||
|19||||||||||
||Masahiko Shibayama|October 2, 2018|September 11, 2019|||||||
|20||||||||||
||Kōichi Hagiuda|September 11, 2019|October 4, 2021|||||||
|Yoshihide Suga||||||||||
|21||||||||||
||Shinsuke Suematsu|October 4, 2021|August 10, 2022|||||||
|rowspan=3|Fumio Kishida|||||||||
|22||||||||||
||Keiko Nagaoka|August 10, 2022|September 13, 2023|||||||
|23||||||||||
||Masahito Moriyama|September 13, 2023|October 1, 2024|||||||
|24||||||||||
||Toshiko Abe|October 1, 2024|October 21, 2025|||||||
|Shigeru Ishiba||||||||||
|25||||||||||
||Yohei Matsumoto|October 21, 2025|Incumbent|||||||
|Sanae Takaichi||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- **insignia**: Goshichi no kiri.svg
- **insigniasize**: 80px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of the Government of Japan
- **image**: Yōhei Matsumoto 2019 (cropped).jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **incumbent**: Yohei Matsumoto
- **incumbentsince**: 21 October 2025
- **department**: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- **style**: His Excellency
- **member of**: Cabinet of Japan
- **reports to**: Prime Minister of Japan
- **nominator**: Prime Minister of Japan
- **appointer**: Emperor of Japan
- **appointer qualified**: <small>attested to by the Emperor of Japan, Emperor</small>
- **precursor**: Minister of Education
Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
- **deputy**: State Minister of Education
- **salary**: ¥20,916,000