| Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | |
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| 国土交通省 | |
| Kokudokōtsūshō | |
| Central Government Bulding # 3: MLIT Headquarters | |
| Agency overview | |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Ministers responsible | Takeshi Maeda, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ken Okuda, Senior Vice Minister Jin Matsubara, Senior Vice Minister |
| Website | |
| http://www.mlit.go.jp | |
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通省 Kokudo-kōtsū-shō), abbreviated MLIT, is a ministry of the Japanese government[1]. It is responsible for one-third of all the laws and orders in Japan and the largest Japanese ministry in terms of employees, as well as the second-largest organ of the Japanese government after the Ministry of Defense. The ministry has four external organs including the Japan Coast Guard and the Japan Tourism Agency.
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MLIT was established as part of the administrative reforms of January 6, 2001, which merged the Ministry of Transport (運輸省 Un'yu-shō), Ministry of Construction (建設省 Kensetsu-shō), Hokkaido Development Agency (北海道開発庁 Hokkaidō-kaihatsu-chō), and the National Land Agency (国土庁 Kokudo-chō). Before the ministry renamed itself on January 8, 2008, the ministry's English name was "Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport"[2].
MLIT is organized into the following bureaus[1][3]:
| Name | From | To | Cabinet |
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| Chikage Oogi | January 6, 2001 | September 22, 2003 | Yoshiro Mori Junichiro Koizumi |
| Nobuteru Ishihara | September 22, 2003 | September 27, 2004 | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Kazuo Kitagawa | September 27, 2004 | September 26, 2006 | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | September 26, 2006 | August 2, 2008 | Shinzo Abe Yasuo Fukuda |
| Sadakazu Tanigaki | August 2, 2008 | September 24, 2008 | Yasuo Fukuda |
| Nariaki Nakayama | September 24, 2008 | September 28, 2008 | Taro Aso |
| Kazuyoshi Kaneko | September 28, 2008 | September 16, 2009 | Taro Aso |
| Seiji Maehara | September 16, 2009 | September 21, 2010 | Yukio Hatoyama Naoto Kan |
| Sumio Mabuchi | September 21, 2010 | January 14, 2011 | Naoto Kan |
| Akihiro Ohata | January 14, 2011 | September 2, 2011 | Naoto Kan |
| Takeshi Maeda | September 2, 2011 | Present | Yoshihiko Noda |
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