Minister of the Environment (Japan)

The Minister of the Environment (環境大臣, Kankyō Daijin) is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of the Environment.

Minister of the Environment (2001-)

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Cabinet
21st century
1	Yoriko Kawaguchi	January 6, 2001	February 8, 2002	Yoshirō Mori Junichiro Koizumi
2	Hiroshi Ōki	February 8, 2002	September 30, 2002	Junichiro Koizumi
3	Shunichi Suzuki	September 30, 2002	September 22, 2003	Junichiro Koizumi
4	Yuriko Koike	September 22, 2003	September 26, 2006	Junichiro Koizumi
5	Masatoshi Wakabayashi	September 26, 2006	August 27, 2007	Shinzō Abe
6	Ichirō Kamoshita	August 27, 2007	August 2, 2008	Shinzō Abe Yasuo Fukuda
7	Tetsuo Saito	August 2, 2008	September 16, 2009	Yasuo Fukuda Taro Aso
8	Sakihito Ozawa	September 16, 2009	September 21, 2010	Yukio Hatoyama Naoto Kan
9	Ryu Matsumoto	September 21, 2010	September 2, 2011	Naoto Kan
10	Goshi Hosono	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012	Yoshihiko Noda
11	Hiroyuki Nagahama	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012	Yoshihiko Noda
12	Nobuteru Ishihara	December 26, 2012	September 3, 2014	Shinzō Abe
13	Yoshio Mochizuki	September 3, 2014	October 7, 2015	Shinzō Abe
14	Tamayo Marukawa	October 7, 2015	Incumbent	Shinzō Abe

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