Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

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

The current minister is Ryosei Akazawa, who took office on 21 October 2025.

## List of ministers of economy, trade and industry (2001–)

|colspan=4|Minister|colspan=3|Term of office|style="width:180px;" rowspan=2 colspan=2|Prime Minister|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|1|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Takeo Hiranuma|rowspan=2|January 6, 2001|rowspan=2|September 22, 2003|rowspan=2||
|Yoshiro Mori||||||||||
|rowspan=3|Junichiro Koizumi|||||||||
|2||||||||||
||Shoichi Nakagawa|September 22, 2003|October 31, 2005|||||||
|3||||||||||
||Toshihiro Nikai (1st)|October 31, 2005|September 26, 2006|||||||
|rowspan=2|4|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Akira Amari|rowspan=2|September 26, 2006|rowspan=2|August 2, 2008|rowspan=2||
|Shinzō Abe||||||||||
|rowspan=2|Yasuo Fukuda|||||||||
|rowspan=2|(3)|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Toshihiro Nikai (2nd)|rowspan=2|August 2, 2008|rowspan=2|September 16, 2009|rowspan=2||
|Tarō Asō||||||||||
|rowspan=2|5|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Masayuki Naoshima|rowspan=2|September 16, 2009|rowspan=2|September 17, 2010|rowspan=2||
|Yukio Hatoyama||||||||||
|rowspan=3|Naoto Kan|||||||||
|6||||||||||
||Akihiro Ohata|September 17, 2010|January 14, 2011|||||||
|7||||||||||
||Banri Kaieda|January 14, 2011|September 2, 2011|||||||
|8||||||||||
||Yoshio Hachiro|September 2, 2011|September 11, 2011|||||||
|rowspan=2|Yoshihiko Noda|||||||||
|9||||||||||
||Yukio Edano|September 12, 2011|December 26, 2012|||||||
|10||||||||||
||Toshimitsu Motegi|December 26, 2012|September 3, 2014|||||||
|rowspan=6|Shinzō Abe|||||||||
|11||||||||||
||Yūko Obuchi|September 3, 2014|October 21, 2014|||||||
|12||||||||||
||Yoichi Miyazawa|October 21, 2014|October 7, 2015|||||||
|13||||||||||
||Motoo Hayashi|October 7, 2015|August 3, 2016|||||||
|14||||||||||
||Hiroshige Sekō|August 3, 2016|September 11, 2019|||||||
|15||||||||||
||Isshu Sugawara|September 11, 2019|October 25, 2019|||||||
|16||||||||||
||Hiroshi Kajiyama|October 25, 2019|October 4, 2021|||||||
|Yoshihide Suga||||||||||
|17||||||||||
||Kōichi Hagiuda|October 4, 2021|August 10, 2022|||||||
|rowspan=3|Fumio Kishida|||||||||
|18||||||||||
||Yasutoshi Nishimura|August 10, 2022|December 14, 2023|||||||
|19||||||||||
||Ken Saitō|December 14, 2023|October 1, 2024|||||||
|20||||||||||
||Yoji Muto|October 1, 2024|October 21, 2025|||||||
|Shigeru Ishiba||||||||||
|21||||||||||
||Ryosei Akazawa|October 21, 2025|Incumbent|||||||
|Sanae Takaichi||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
- **insignia**: Goshichi no kiri.svg
- **insigniasize**: 80px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of the Government of Japan
- **image**: Ryōsei Akazawa 2025 (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Ryosei Akazawa
- **incumbentsince**: 21 October 2025
- **department**: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- **style**: His Excellency
- **member of**: Cabinet of Japan
National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council
- **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 International Trade and Industry
- **deputy**: State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
- **salary**: ¥20,916,000