Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Japan Cabinet is formed and headed by the Prime Minister of Japan. In accordance with the nation's Constitution, the members appointed must be civilian, and the majority of members must come from either house of the Diet (Kokkai), the national legislature of Japan. Prime Minister Koizumi formed his Third Cabinet on September 22, 2003. It consists of the following members: Taro Aso Minister for Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications: Daizo Nozawa Minister of Justice Yoriko Kawaguchi (Not a member of the Diet) Minister of Foreign Affairs Sandakazu Tanigaki Minister of Finance Takeo Kawamura Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Chikara Sakaguchi Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Yoshiyuki Kamei Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shoichi Nakagawa Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Nobuteru Ishihara Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Yuriko Koike Minister of the Environment Yasuo Fukuda Chief Cabinet Secretary Minister of State for Gender Equality Hiroyuki Hosoda, Masaaki Yamazaki, and Masahiro Futahashi Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries Kiyoko Ono Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Measures for Decreasing Birthrate Minister of State for Food Safety Shigeru Ishiba Minister of State for Defense Toshimitsu Motegi Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Minister of State for Personal Information Protection In charge of Information Technology Heizo Takenaka (Not a member of the Diet) Minister of State for Financial Services Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Kazuyoshi Kaneko Minister of State for Regulatory Reform Minister of State for Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan In charge of Administrative Reform In charge of Special Zones for Structural Reform Kiichi Inoue Minister of State for Disaster Management In charge of National Emergency Legislation References The Japan Times. "Junichiro Koizumi's Third Cabinet". The Japan Times Online. Accessed 19 November 2003 from: http://www.japantimes.com/cabinets.htm Cabinet Secretariat, Office of Cabinet Public Relations, Japan (2003). Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet. Retrieved 28 Oct. 2003 from: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html See also: Cabinet (government) Politics of Japan Japan This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.