Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)

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

The current minister is Norikazu Suzuki, who took office on 21 October 2025.

## List of ministers of agriculture, forestry and fisheries

|colspan="4"|Minister|colspan="3"|Term of office|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Prime minister|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||||||||||
||Ichiro Nakagawa|July 5, 1978|December 7, 1978|||||||
|Takeo Fukuda||||||||||
|2||||||||||
||Michio Watanabe|December 7, 1978|November 9, 1979|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Masayoshi Ōhira|||||||||
|3||||||||||
||Kabun Mutō|November 9, 1979|July 17, 1980|||||||
|4||||||||||
||Takao Kameoka|July 17, 1980|November 30, 1981|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Zenkō Suzuki|||||||||
|5||||||||||
||Kichirō Tazawa|November 30, 1981|November 27, 1982|||||||
|6||||||||||
||Iwazo Kaneko|November 27, 1982|December 27, 1983|||||||
|rowspan="5"|Yasuhiro Nakasone|||||||||
|7||||||||||
||Shinjiro Yamamura|December 27, 1983|November 1, 1984|||||||
|8||||||||||
||Moriyoshi Sato|November 1, 1984|December 28, 1985|||||||
|9||||||||||
||Tsutomu Hata|December 28, 1985|July 22, 1986|||||||
|10||||||||||
||Mutsuki Kato|July 22, 1986|November 6, 1987|||||||
|11||||||||||
||Takashi Sato|November 6, 1987|December 27, 1988|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Noboru Takeshita|||||||||
|12 (9)||||||||||
||Tsutomu Hata|December 27, 1988|June 3, 1989|||||||
|13||||||||||
||Hisao Horinouchi|June 3, 1989|August 10, 1989|||||||
|Sōsuke Uno||||||||||
|14||||||||||
||Michihiko Kano|August 10, 1989|February 28, 1990|||||||
|rowspan="3"|Toshiki Kaifu|||||||||
|15||||||||||
||Tomio Yamamoto|February 28, 1990|December 29, 1990|||||||
|16||||||||||
||Motoji Kondō|December 29, 1990|November 5, 1991|||||||
|17||||||||||
||Masami Tanabu|November 5, 1991|August 4, 1993|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Kiichi Miyazawa|||||||||
|**18**||||||||||
||**Kiichi Miyazawa**|**August 4, 1993**|**August 9, 1993**||****|||||
|19||||||||||
||Eijiro Hata|August 9, 1993|April 28, 1994|||||||
|Morihiro Hosokawa||||||||||
|***ー (9)***||||||||||
||***Tsutomu Hata*** ***(Acting)***|***April 28, 1994***|***April 28, 1994***||******|||||
|rowspan="2"|Tsutomu Hata|||||||||
|20 (10)||||||||||
||Mutsuki Kato|April 28, 1994|June 30, 1994|||||||
|21||||||||||
||Taichiro Ōkawara|June 30, 1994|August 8, 1995|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Tomiichi Murayama|||||||||
|22||||||||||
||Hosei Norota|August 8, 1995|January 11, 1996|||||||
|23||||||||||
||Ichizo Ōhara|January 11, 1996|November 7, 1996|||||||
|rowspan="4"|Ryutaro Hashimoto|||||||||
|24||||||||||
||Takao Fujimoto|November 7, 1996|September 11, 1997|||||||
|25||||||||||
||Ihei Ochi|September 11, 1997|September 26, 1997|||||||
|26||||||||||
||Yoshinobu Shimamura|September 26, 1997|July 30, 1998|||||||
|27||||||||||
||Shōichi Nakagawa|July 30, 1998|October 5, 1999|||||||
|Keizō Obuchi||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|28|||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Tokuichiro Tamazawa|rowspan="2"|October 5, 1999|rowspan="2"|July 4, 2000|rowspan="2"||
|Keizō Obuchi||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Yoshirō Mori|||||||||
|29||||||||||
||Yoichi Tani|July 4, 2000|December 5, 2000|||||||
|30||||||||||
||Yoshio Yatsu|December 5, 2000|April 26, 2001|||||||
|31||||||||||
||Tsutomu Takebe|April 26, 2001|September 30, 2002|||||||
|rowspan="7"|Junichiro Koizumi|||||||||
|32||||||||||
||Tadamori Ōshima|September 30, 2002|April 1, 2003|||||||
|33||||||||||
||Yoshiyuki Kamei|April 1, 2003|September 27, 2004|||||||
|34 (26)||||||||||
||Yoshinobu Shimamura|September 27, 2004|August 8, 2005|||||||
|**35**||||||||||
||**Junichiro Koizumi**|**August 8, 2005**|**August 11, 2005**||****|||||
|36||||||||||
||Mineichi Iwanaga|August 11, 2005|October 31, 2005|||||||
|37 (27)||||||||||
||Shōichi Nakagawa|October 31, 2005|September 26, 2006|||||||
|38||||||||||
||Toshikatsu Matsuoka|September 26, 2006|May 28, 2007|||||||
|rowspan="6"|Shinzo Abe|||||||||
|_ー_||||||||||
||_Masatoshi Wakabayashi*** ***(Acting)_|_May 28, 2007_|_June 1, 2007_||__|||||
|39||||||||||
||Norihiko Akagi|June 1, 2007|August 1, 2007|||||||
|40||||||||||
||Masatoshi Wakabayashi|August 1, 2007|August 27, 2007|||||||
|41||||||||||
||Takehiko Endo|August 27, 2007|September 3, 2007|||||||
|_ー_||||||||||
||_Akira Amari*** ***(Acting)_|_September 3, 2007_|_September 4, 2007_||__|||||
|rowspan="2"|42 (40)|||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Masatoshi Wakabayashi|rowspan="2"|September 4, 2007|rowspan="2"|August 2, 2008|rowspan="2"||
|Shinzo Abe||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Yasuo Fukuda|||||||||
|43||||||||||
||Seiichi Ōta|August 2, 2008|September 19, 2008|||||||
|_ー_||||||||||
||_Nobutaka Machimura_ _(Acting)_|_September 19, 2008_|_September 26, 2008_||__|||||
|44||||||||||
||Shigeru Ishiba|September 26, 2008|September 16, 2009|||||||
|Tarō Asō||||||||||
|45||||||||||
||Hirotaka Akamatsu|September 16, 2009|June 8, 2010|||||||
|Yukio Hatoyama||||||||||
|46||||||||||
||Masahiko Yamada|June 8, 2010|September 17, 2010|||||||
|Naoto Kan||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|47 (14)|||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Michihiko Kano|rowspan="2"|September 17, 2010|rowspan="2"|June 4, 2012|rowspan="2"||
|Naoto Kan||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Yoshihiko Noda|||||||||
|48||||||||||
||Akira Gunji|June 4, 2012|December 16, 2012|||||||
|49||||||||||
||Yoshimasa Hayashi|December 16, 2012|September 3, 2014|||||||
|rowspan="8"|Shinzo Abe|||||||||
|50||||||||||
||Koya Nishikawa|September 3, 2014|February 23, 2015|||||||
|51||||||||||
||Yoshimasa Hayashi|February 23, 2015|October 7, 2015|||||||
|52||||||||||
||Hiroshi Moriyama|October 7, 2015|August 3, 2016|||||||
|53||||||||||
||Yūji Yamamoto|August 3, 2016|August 3, 2017|||||||
|54||||||||||
||Ken Saitō|August 3, 2017|October 2, 2018|||||||
|55||||||||||
||Takamori Yoshikawa|October 2, 2018|September 11, 2019|||||||
|56||||||||||
||Taku Etō|September 11, 2019|September 16, 2020|||||||
|57||||||||||
||Kōtarō Nogami|September 16, 2020|October 4, 2021|||||||
|Yoshihide Suga||||||||||
|58||||||||||
||Genjirō Kaneko|October 4, 2021|August 10, 2022|||||||
|rowspan="4"|Fumio Kishida|||||||||
|59||||||||||
||Tetsuro Nomura|August 10, 2022|September 13, 2023|||||||
|60||||||||||
||Ichiro Miyashita|September 13, 2023|December 14, 2023|||||||
|61||||||||||
||Tetsushi Sakamoto|December 14, 2023|October 1, 2024|||||||
|62||||||||||
||Yasuhiro Ozato|October 1, 2024|November 11, 2024|||||||
|rowspan=3|Shigeru Ishiba|||||||||
|63 (56)||||||||||
||Taku Etō|November 11, 2024|May 21, 2025|||||||
|64||||||||||
||Shinjirō Koizumi|May 21, 2025|October 21, 2025|||||||
|65||||||||||
||Norikazu Suzuki|October 21, 2025|Incumbent|||||||
|Sanae Takaichi||||||||||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- **insignia**: Goshichi no kiri.svg
- **insigniasize**: 80px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of the Government of Japan
- **image**: Norikazu Suzuki 20161031.jpg
- **incumbent**: Norikazu Suzuki
- **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 Agriculture
- **salary**: ¥20,916,000