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Noda Cabinet

Cabinet of Japan (2011–2012)

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Noda Cabinet
95th Cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (front row, centre) with his new cabinet inside the Kantei, September 2, 2011.
Date formed	September 2, 2011
Date dissolved	December 26, 2012
People and organisations
Head of state	Emperor Akihito
Head of government	Yoshihiko Noda
Deputy head of government	Katsuya Okada (from January 13, 2012)
Member party	DPJ–PNP Coalition
Status in legislature	HoR: DPJ–PNP Coalition majority HoC: DPJ–PNP Coalition minority
Opposition party	Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Opposition leader	Sadakazu Tanigaki (until September 26, 2012) Shinzō Abe (from September 26, 2012)
History
Predecessor	Kan Cabinet
Successor	Second Abe Cabinet

The Noda Cabinet governed Japan from September 2011 to December 2012 under the leadership of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who came into power after winning the DPJ leadership in September 2011. The Cabinet enacted economic reforms to reduce the burden of Japan's debt and the costs inflicted by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Political background[edit]

The previous Prime Minister and DPJ president, Naoto Kan resigned on 26 August 2011 after the passage of the second extra budget for 2011. Kan's resignation triggered a DPJ leadership election, which was won by Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda. On 2 September, Noda was formally appointed by the Emperor as the Japan's 95th Prime Minister and the third DPJ Prime Minister in two years.

The administration oversaw the first increase of consumption tax since 1997. Noda seek to increase the tax to gain more revenue to pay off Japan's debt and the cost of the recovery of the triple disaster. Long considered to be an unpopular policy, successive governments failed to enact the increase.^[1] The consumption tax increase also caused a split within the DPJ. While the consumption tax increase bill received wide support in the Diet, including from the LDP opposition, a major faction in the DPJ led by Ichirō Ozawa was strongly opposed to the policy. Ozawa and his faction decided to split from the DPJ on 11 July 2012, forming People's Life First which let the DPJ lost majority in the Diet. In exchange with LDP supported, Noda decided to hold snap election. The DPJ lost most of the seats while the LDP returned into the power after three years of opposition.

Following Fukushima radiation, Noda's government also oversaw further closedown of Japan's nuclear power plants, continuing his predecessor's policy.^[2] An exception to this was the Ōi Nuclear Power PlantinFukui which was reopened in July 2012 to mitigate the damage inflicted to the plant-dependent local economy. The reopening was proven to be brief with both of the restarted reactors shut down again in September 2013.

Election of the prime minister[edit]

30 August 2011

House of Representatives Absolute majority (239/476) required
Choice		Vote
		Caucuses	Votes
	YYoshihiko Noda	DPJ (303), PNP (3), NPN (1), Independent [Speaker] (1)	308 / 476
	Sadakazu Tanigaki	LDP (116), Independent (1), Independent [Vice Speaker] (1)	118 / 476
	Natsuo Yamaguchi	Kōmeitō (21)	21 / 476
	Kazuo Shii	JCP (9)	9 / 476
	Mizuho Fukushima	Social Democratic Party of Japan (6)	6 / 476
	Yoshimi Watanabe	Your Party (5)	5 / 476
	Takeo Hiranuma	Sunrise Party (2), Hiranuma Group independents (2)	4 / 476
	Ichirō Ozawa	Independent (1)	1 / 476
	Banri Kaieda	Independent (1)	1 / 476
	Kunio Hatoyama	Independent (1)	1 / 476
	Katsuhito Yokokume	Independent (1)	1 / 476
	Abstention	Genzei Nippon (1)	1 / 480
	Did not vote	Independent (2), LDP (1)	3 / 480
	Vacant		1 / 480
Source: 177th Diet Session (House of Representatives) (roll call only lists individual votes, not grouped by caucus)

30 August 2011

House of Councillors
Choice		Vote
		Caucuses	Votes
First round Absolute majority (121/241) required
	Yoshihiko Noda	DPJーShin-Ryokufūkai (106), PNP (3), Independent (1)	110 / 241
	Sadakazu Tanigaki	LDP (82), Independent [Yasuhiro Ōe and Tamon Hasegawa] (2), Independent [Vice President] (1)	85 / 241
	Natsuo Yamaguchi	Kōmeitō (19)	19 / 241
	Yoshimi Watanabe	Your Party (11)	11 / 241
	Kazuo Shii	JCP (6)	6 / 241
	Mizuho Fukushima	Social Democratic Party of Japan (4), Independent (1)	5 / 241
	Takeo Hiranuma	Sunrise PartyーNRP (3)	3 / 241
	Yōichi Masuzoe	Sunrise PartyーNRP (2)	2 / 241
	Did not vote	Independent [President] (1)	1 / 242
Second round (runoff) Simple majority required
	YYoshihiko Noda	DPJーShin-Ryokufūkai (106), PNP (3), Independent (1)	110 / 241
	Sadakazu Tanigaki	LDP (82), Kōmeitō (19), Sunrise PartyーNRP (3), Independent [Yasuhiro Ōe and Tamon Hasegawa] (2), Independent [Vice President] (1)	107 / 241
	Blank votes	Your Party (11), JCP (6), Social Democratic Party of Japan (4), Sunrise PartyーNRP (2), Independent (1)	24 / 241
	Did not vote	Independent [President] (1)	1 / 242
Source: 177th Diet Session (House of Councillors) - First round vote 177th Diet Session (House of Councillors) - Second round vote (lists individual votes grouped by caucus)

Lists of ministers[edit]

  Democratic
  People's New
  Independent
R = Member of the House of Representatives
C = Member of the House of Councillors
N = Non-Diet member
Italics denote acting minister

Cabinet[edit]

First reshuffle[edit]

Second reshuffle[edit]

Third reshuffle[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• List of Ministers of the Noda Cabinet - Prime Minister's Office (Kantei)