Minister of Finance (Japan)
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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 is 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[1], due to Japan's position as the world's largest and lowest rate creditor.
[edit] List of Ministers of Finance since 1945
- Juichi Tsushima 1945
- Keizo Shibusawa 1945-1946
- Tanzan Ishibashi 1946-1947
- Shotaro Yano 1947
- Takeo Kurisu 1947-1948
- Tokutaro Kitamura 1948
- Sanroku Izumiyama 1948
- Hayato Ikeda 1949-1952, 1956-1957
- Tadaharu Mukai 1952-1953
- Sankuro Ogasawara 1953-1954
- Naoto Ichimanda 1954-1956, 1957-1958
- Eisaku Sato 1958-1960
- Mikio Mikita 1960-1962, 1966-1968, 1971
- Kakuei Tanaka 1962-1965
- Takeo Fukuda 1965-1966, 1968-1971, 1973-1974
- Kojiro Ueki 1971-1972
- Kichi Aichi 1972-1973
- Masayoshi Ohira 1974-1976
- Hideo Bo 1976-1977
- Tatsuo Murayama 1977-1978, 1988-1989
- Ippei Kaneko 1978-1979
- Noboru Takeshita 1979-1980, 1982-1986
- Michio Watanabe 1980-1982
- Kiichi Miyazawa 1986-1988, 1998-2001
- Ryutaro Hashimoto 1988-1991
- Tsutomu Hata 1991-1992
- Yoshiro Hayashi 1992-1993
- Hirohisa Fujii 1993-1994
- Masayoshi Takemura 1994-1996
- Wataru Kubo 1996
- Hiroshi Mitsuzuka 1996-1998
- Hikaru Matsunaga 1998
- Masajuro Shiokawa 2001-2003
- Sadakazu Tanigaki 2003-2006
- Koji Omi 2006-2007
- Fukushiro Nukaga 2007-present