Deputy Prime Minister of Japan

The  is the deputy leader of the government of Japan.

## List of deputy prime ministers of Japan

|**Color key** (for political party)|
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|colspan="2" rowspan="2" scope="col"|Portrait|rowspan="2" scope="col" width="150px"|Name|colspan="3" scope="colgroup"|Term of office|rowspan="2" scope="col" width="95px"|Party|rowspan="2" width="150px"|Prime Minister|rowspan="2" scope="col" width="95px"|Government||||||
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|style="background:;"|||**Kijūrō Shidehara** <small>Rep for Osaka 3rd</small>|1947|1947||Japan Progressive|**Shigeru Yoshida**|Yoshida I||||||||
|colspan="7"|_Vacant_|rowspan="2"|**Tetsu Katayama**|rowspan="2"|Katayama||||||||||||
|style="background:;"|||**Hitoshi Ashida** <small>Rep for Kyōto 2nd</small>|1947|1948||Democratic||||||||||
|style="background:;"|||**Suehiro Nishio** <small>Rep for Osaka 2nd</small>|1948|1948||Democratic|rowspan="2"|**Hitoshi Ashida**|rowspan="2"|Ashida||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="2"|_Vacant_||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="8"|**Shigeru Yoshida**|rowspan="2"|Yoshida II||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="2"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**** <small>Rep for Kōchi at-large</small>|rowspan="3"|1948|rowspan="3"|1951|rowspan="3"||rowspan="2"|Democratic Liberal||||
|rowspan="3"|Yoshida III||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;"||Liberal|||||||||||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="2"|_Vacant_||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Yoshida IV||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Taketora Ogata** <small>Rep for Fukuoka 1st</small>|rowspan="2"|1952|rowspan="2"|1954|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Liberal||||
|Yoshida V|||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="2"||rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|**Mamoru Shigemitsu** <small>Rep for Ōita 2nd</small>|rowspan="4"|1954|rowspan="4"|1956|rowspan="4"||rowspan="2"|Japan Democratic|rowspan="4"|**Ichirō Hatoyama**|Hatoyama I. I|
|rowspan="2"|Hatoyama I. II||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Liberal Democratic||||||||||||||
|Hatoyama I. III|||||||||||||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="2"|_Vacant_|**Tanzan Ishibashi**|Ishibashi||||||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|**Nobusuke Kishi**|rowspan="2"|Kishi I||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Mitsujirō Ishii** <small>Rep for Fukuoka 3rd</small>|1957|1958||Liberal Democratic||||||||||
|colspan="7"|_Vacant_|rowspan="2"|Kishi II||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Shūji Masutani** <small>Rep for Ishikawa 2nd</small>|1959|1960||Liberal Democratic||||||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="7"|_Vacant_|rowspan="3"|**Hayato Ikeda**|Ikeda I|||||||||||||
|Ikeda II|||||||||||||||||
|Ikeda III|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**Eisaku Satō**|Satō I|||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1"|Satō II||||||||||||||||
|Satō III|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|**Kakuei Tanaka**|rowspan="2"|Tanaka K. I||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Takeo Miki** <small>Rep for Tokushima at-large</small>|rowspan="2"|1972|rowspan="2"|1974|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Liberal Democratic||||
|rowspan="2"|Tanaka K. II||||||||||||||||
|colspan="7"|_Vacant_||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Takeo Fukuda** <small>Rep for Gunma 3rd</small>|1974|1976||Liberal Democratic|rowspan="2"|**Takeo Miki**|rowspan="2"|Miki||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="4"|_Vacant_||||||||||||||||
|**Takeo Fukuda**|Fukuda T.||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**Masayoshi Ōhira**|Ōhira I|||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Ōhira II||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Masayoshi Ito** <small>Rep for Fukushima 2nd</small>|rowspan="2"|1980|rowspan="2"|1980|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Liberal Democratic||||
|**Masayoshi Ito**|||||||||||||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="3"|_Vacant_|**Zenkō Suzuki**|Suzuki Z.||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**Yasuhiro Nakasone**|Nakasone I|||||||||||||||
|Nakasone II|||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Shin Kanemaru** <small>Rep for Yamanashi at-large</small>|1986|1987||Liberal Democratic|Nakasone III|||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Kiichi Miyazawa** <small>Rep for Hiroshima 3rd</small>|1987|1988||Liberal Democratic|rowspan="2"|**Noboru Takeshita**|rowspan="2"|Takeshita||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="4"|_Vacant_||||||||||||||||
|**Sōsuke Uno**|Uno||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**Toshiki Kaifu**|Kaifu I|||||||||||||||
|Kaifu II|||||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Michio Watanabe** <small>Rep for Tochigi 1st</small>|1991|1993||Liberal Democratic|rowspan="2"|**Kiichi Miyazawa**|rowspan="2"|Miyazawa||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Masaharu Gotōda** <small>Rep for Tokushima at-large</small>|1993|1993||Liberal Democratic||||||||||
|style="background:;"|||**Tsutomu Hata** <small>Rep for Nagano 2nd</small>|1993|1994||Renewal|**Morihiro Hosokawa**|Hosokawa||||||||
|colspan="7"|_Vacant_|**Tsutomu Hata**|Hata||||||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Yōhei Kōno** <small>Rep for Kanagawa 5th</small>|1994|1995||Liberal Democratic|rowspan="2"|**Tomiichi Murayama**|rowspan="2"|Murayama||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="1"|||**Ryutaro Hashimoto** <small>Rep for Okayama 2nd</small>|1995|1996||Liberal Democratic||||||||||
|style="background:;"|||**Wataru Kubo** <small>Councillor for Kagoshima at-large</small>|1996|1996||Social Democratic|rowspan="2"|**Ryutaro Hashimoto**|Hashimoto I|||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="10"|_Vacant_|Hashimoto II|||||||||||||||
|**Keizō Obuchi**|Obuchi||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**Yoshirō Mori**|Mori I|||||||||||||||
|Mori II|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**Junichiro Koizumi**|Koizumi I|||||||||||||||
|Koizumi II|||||||||||||||||
|Koizumi III|||||||||||||||||
|**Shinzo Abe**|Abe S. I||||||||||||||||
|**Yasuo Fukuda**|Fukuda Y.||||||||||||||||
|**Tarō Asō**|Asō||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1" style="background:;"|||**Naoto Kan** <small>Rep for Tokyo 18th</small>|2009|2010||Democratic|**Yukio Hatoyama**|Hatoyama Y.||||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="2"|_Vacant_|**Naoto Kan**|Kan||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**Yoshihiko Noda**|rowspan="2"|Noda||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1" style="background:;"|||**Katsuya Okada** <small>Rep for Mie 3rd</small>|2012|2012||Democratic||||||||||
|style="background:;" rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|**Tarō Asō** <small>Rep for Fukuoka 8th</small>|rowspan="4"|2012|rowspan="4"|2021|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|Liberal Democratic|rowspan="3"|**Shinzo Abe**|Abe S. II|
|Abe S. III|||||||||||||||||
|Abe S. IV|||||||||||||||||
|**Yoshihide Suga**|Suga||||||||||||||||
|colspan="7" rowspan="5"|_Vacant_|rowspan="2"|**Fumio Kishida**|Kishida I|||||||||||||
|Kishida II|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**Shigeru Ishiba**|rowspan="1"|Ishiba I||||||||||||||
|Ishiba II|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1"|**Sanae Takaichi**|Takaichi|||||||||||||||

## Other websites

- _Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary_, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991,

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Deputy Prime Minister
- **native name**: 副総理
- **insignia**: Goshichi no kiri.svg
- **insigniasize**: 80px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of the Government of Japan
- **incumbent**: Vacant
- **incumbentsince**: 4 October 2021
- **style**: Mr. Deputy Prime Minister
His Excellency
- **member of**: Cabinet of Japan, Cabinet
National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council
- **appointer**: The Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister

- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **succession**: First
- **salary**: ¥20,916,000
- **formation**: 3 May 1947
- **inaugural**: Kijūrō Shidehara