page_title: Masatoshi Wakabayashi
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Masatoshi Wakabayashi / Career
caption_attribution_description: Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister, formed the Cabinet on September 26, 2007. Fukuda posed for the photo with Hiroya Masuda, Kunio Hatoyama, Masahiko Kōmura, Fukushirō Nukaga, Kisaburō Tokai, Yōichi Masuzoe, Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Akira Amari, Tetsuzō Fuyushiba, Ichirō Kamoshita, Shigeru Ishiba, Nobutaka Machimura, Shin'ya Izumi, Fumio Kishida, Yoshimi Watanabe, Hiroko Ōta, Yōko Kamikawa, Ministers of State, Matsushige Ōno, Mitsuhide Iwaki, Masahiro Futahashi, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries, and Reiichi Miyazaki, Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Chiyoda Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis.
context_page_description: Masatoshi Wakabayashi is a Japanese politician who is a member of Liberal Democratic Party.
context_section_description: Wakabayashi became the third Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries appointed in Shinzō Abe's first cabinet after Toshikatsu Matsuoka killed himself as a result of financial scandal and Matsuoka's successor Norihiko Akagi resigned due to other financial scandals. He was appointed to the same position again in Abe's first reshuffled cabinet after Takehiko Endo's resignation.
  After Abe's resignation, he worked under Yasuo Fukuda, who appointed Seiichi Ota his successor.
caption: With members of the Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet (September 26, 2007)
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