Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

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

Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi took office on 21 October 2025.

## List of ministers of health, labour and welfare (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|Chikara Sakaguchi|rowspan=2|January 6, 2001|rowspan=2|September 27, 2004|rowspan=2||
|Yoshirō Mori||||||||||
|rowspan=3|Junichiro Koizumi|||||||||
|2||||||||||
||Hidehisa Otsuji|September 27, 2004|October 31, 2005|||||||
|3||||||||||
||Jirō Kawasaki|October 31, 2005|September 26, 2006|||||||
|4||||||||||
||Hakuo Yanagisawa|September 26, 2006|August 27, 2007|||||||
|rowspan=2|Shinzō Abe|||||||||
|rowspan=3|5|||||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Yōichi Masuzoe|rowspan=3|August 27, 2007|rowspan=3|September 16, 2009|rowspan=3||
|Yasuo Fukuda||||||||||
|Tarō Asō||||||||||
|rowspan=2|6|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Akira Nagatsuma|rowspan=2|September 16, 2009|rowspan=2|September 17, 2010|rowspan=2||
|Yukio Hatoyama||||||||||
|rowspan=2|Naoto Kan|||||||||
|7||||||||||
||Ritsuo Hosokawa|September 17, 2010|September 2, 2011|||||||
|8||||||||||
||Yoko Komiyama|September 2, 2011|October 1, 2012|||||||
|rowspan=2|Yoshihiko Noda|||||||||
|9||||||||||
||Wakio Mitsui|October 1, 2012|December 26, 2012|||||||
|10||||||||||
||Norihisa Tamura|December 26, 2012|September 3, 2014|||||||
|rowspan=5|Shinzō Abe|||||||||
|11||||||||||
||Yasuhisa Shiozaki|September 3, 2014|August 3, 2017|||||||
|12||||||||||
||Katsunobu Katō|August 3, 2017|October 2, 2018|||||||
|13||||||||||
||Takumi Nemoto|October 2, 2018|September 11, 2019|||||||
|(12)||||||||||
||Katsunobu Katō|September 11, 2019|September 16, 2020|||||||
|(10)||||||||||
||Norihisa Tamura|September 16, 2020|October 4, 2021|||||||
|Yoshihide Suga||||||||||
|14||||||||||
||Shigeyuki Goto|October 4, 2021|August 10, 2022|||||||
|rowspan="3"|Fumio Kishida|||||||||
|(12)||||||||||
||Katsunobu Katō|August 10, 2022|September 13, 2023|||||||
|15||||||||||
||Keizō Takemi|September 13, 2023|October 1, 2024|||||||
|16||||||||||
||Takamaro Fukuoka|October 1, 2024|October 21, 2025|||||||
|Shigeru Ishiba||||||||||
|17||||||||||
||Kenichiro Ueno|October 21, 2025|_Incumbent_|||||||
|Sanae Takaichi||||||||||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- **insignia**: Goshichi no kiri.svg
- **insigniasize**: 80px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of the Government of Japan
- **image**: Kenichiro Ueno.jpg
- **incumbent**: Kenichiro Ueno
- **incumbentsince**: 21 October 2025
- **department**: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
- **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 Health
Minister of Labor
- **deputy**: State Minister of Health and Labour
- **salary**: ¥20,916,000