Minister of Finance (Japan)

The Minister of Finance (財務大臣 Zaimu Daijin) is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of Finance. This position was formerly cited as being Japan's most powerful and one of the world's, because Japan had historically held the largest foreign exchange reserves. It seems that title has been passed to Bank of Japan governors, due to Japan's position as the world's largest and lowest rate creditor.

Until 2001, the position was known in Japanese literally as "Treasury Minister" (大藏大臣 (Ōkura Daijin)), but the English name was "Minister of Finance" both before and after the name change in Japanese.

List of ministers

#	Name	Took office	Left office
20th century
1	Watanabe Kunitake	1900	1901
2	Saionji Kinmochi	1901	1901
3	Sone Arasuke	1901	1906
4	Yoshiro Sakatani	1906	1908
5	Masahisa Matsuda	1908	1908
6	Katsura Tarō	1908	1911
7	Yamamoto Tatsuo	1911	1912
8	Wakatsuki Reijirō (1st)	1912	1913
9	Takahashi Korekiyo (1st)	1913	1914
8	Wakatsuki Reijirō (2nd)	1914	1915
10	Taketomi Tokitoshi	1915	1916
11	Terauchi Masatake	1916	1916
12	Kazue Shōda (1st)	1916	1918
9	Takahashi Korekiyo (2nd)	1918	1922
13	Otohiko Ichiki	1922	1923
14	Junnosuke Inoue (1st)	1923	1924
12	Kazue Shōda (2nd)	1924	1924
15	Osachi Hamaguchi	1924	1925
16	Seiji Hayami	1925	1925
17	Kataoka Naoharu	1925	1927
9	Takahashi Korekiyo (3rd)	1927	1927
18	Chuzo Mitsuchi	1927	1929
14	Junnosuke Inoue (2nd)	1929	1931
9	Takahashi Korekiyo (4th)	1931	1934
19	Sadanobu Fujii	1934	1934
9	Takahashi Korekiyo (5th)	1934	1936
20	Machida Chūji	1936	1936
21	Eiichi Baba	1936	1937
22	Toyotaro Yuki[1]	1937	1937
23	Okinori Kaya (1st)	1937	1938
24	Shigeaki Ikeda	1938	1939
25	Sotaro Ishiwata (1st)	1939	1939
26	Kazuo Aoki	1939	1940
27	Yukio Sakurauchi	1940	1940
28	Isao Kawada	1940	1941
29	Masatsune Ogura	1941	1941
23	Okinori Kaya (2nd)	1941	1944
25	Sotaro Ishiwata (2nd)	1944	1945
30	Juichi Tsushima	1945	1945
31	Keizō Shibusawa	1945	1946
32	Tanzan Ishibashi	1946	1947
33	Shōtarō Yano	1947	1947
34	Takeo Kurusu	1947	1948
35	Tokutarō Kitamura	1948	1948
36	Sanroku Izumiyama	1948	1948
37	Shinzō Ōya Interim	1948	1949
38	Hayato Ikeda (1st)	1949	1952
39	Tadaharu Mukai	1952	1953
40	Sankurō Ogasawara	1953	1954
41	Hisato Ichimada (1st)	1954	1956
38	Hayato Ikeda (2nd)	1956	1957
41	Hisato Ichimada (2nd)	1957	1958
42	Eisaku Satō	1958	1960
43	Mikio Mizuta (1st)	1960	1962
44	Kakuei Tanaka	1962	1965
45	Takeo Fukuda (1st)	1965	1966
43	Mikio Mizuta (2nd)	1966	1968
45	Takeo Fukuda (2nd)	1968	1971
43	Mikio Mizuta (3rd)	1971	1971
46	Koshiro Ueki	1971	1972
47	Kiichi Aichi	1972	1973
45	Takeo Fukuda (3rd)	1973	1974
48	Masayoshi Ōhira	1974	1976
49	Hideo Bō	1976	1977
50	Tatsuo Murayama (1st)	1977	1978
51	Ippei Kaneko	1978	1979
52	Noboru Takeshita (1st)	1979	1980
53	Michio Watanabe	1980	1982
52	Noboru Takeshita (2nd)	1982	1986
54	Kiichi Miyazawa (1st)	1986	1988
50	Tatsuo Murayama (2nd)	1988	1989
55	Ryutaro Hashimoto	1989	1991
56	Tsutomu Hata	1991	1992
57	Yoshirō Hayashi	1992	1993
58	Hirohisa Fujii (1st)	1993	1994
59	Masayoshi Takemura	1994	1996
60	Wataru Kubo	1996	1996
61	Hiroshi Mitsuzuka	1996	1998
62	Hikaru Matsunaga	1998	1998
54	Kiichi Miyazawa (2nd)	1998	2001
21st century
63	Masajuro Shiokawa	2001	2003
64	Sadakazu Tanigaki	2003	2006
65	Koji Omi	2006	2007
66	Fukushiro Nukaga	2007	2008
67	Bunmei Ibuki	2008	2008
68	Shōichi Nakagawa	2008	2009
69	Kaoru Yosano	2009	2009
58	Hirohisa Fujii (2nd)	2009	2010
70	Naoto Kan	2010	2010
71	Yoshihiko Noda	2010	2011
72	Jun Azumi	2011	2012
73	Koriki Jojima[2]	2012	2012
74	Tarō Asō	2012	present

Notes

Before 2001 The title minister of finance from Japanese language is Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣 Ōkura-daijin).Since 2001 The title minister of finance from Japanese language is Minister of Finance (財務大臣 Zaimu-daijin)

References

1. Fuji Ginkō. (1967). Banking in modern Japan, p. 125.