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Prime Minister of Japan

head of government of Japan

34 dated entries naming Prime Minister of Japan, drawn from 30 separate years between 1856 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1856February 9 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1921)source
  • 1858October 27 – Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)source
  • 1866March 21 – Wakatsuki Reijirō, 25th and 28th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1949)source
  • 1867October 25 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)source
  • 1876February 23 – Senjūrō Hayashi, Japanese general and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1943)source
  • 1891October 12 – Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945)source
  • 1900August 23 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)source

20th century

  • 1909October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun, an activist of the Korean independence movement, at the Harbin railway station in Manchuria.source
  • 1909October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)source
  • 1918May 4 – Kakuei Tanaka, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)source
  • 1921November 4 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856) (assassinated)source
  • 1922February 1 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese field marshal, 3rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)source
  • 1922January 10 – Ōkuma Shigenobu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)source
  • 1931August 26 – Hamaguchi Osachi, Japanese politician, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1870)source
  • 1931December 13 – Wakatsuki Reijirō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 1932May 15 – Tsuyoshi Inukai, 18th prime minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1855)source
  • 1933December 8 – Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Imperial Japanese army officer, 8th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)source
  • 1936March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota.source
  • 1938January 14 – Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese politician, 50th Prime Minister of Japansource
  • 1941October 18 – General Hideki Tōjō becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 1944Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort and is succeeded on July 22 by Kuniaki Koiso.source
  • 1945December 16 – Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese general, politician, and 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (suicide) (b. 1891)source
  • 1954September 21 – Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)source
  • 1959March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama, Japanese politician, 36th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1883)source
  • 1965August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 38th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)source
  • 1967October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)source
  • 1975June 3 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)source
  • 1989April 25 – Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of Japan in the wake of a stock-trading scandal.source

21st century

  • 2001April 26 – Junichiro Koizumi becomes the 86th Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 2020August 28 – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Japan, announces his resignation from office, citing ill health.source
  • 2020September 16 – Yoshihide Suga becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Shinzo Abe.source
  • 2021October 4 – Fumio Kishida becomes the 100th Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Yoshihide Suga.source
  • 2022July 8 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a public speech in the city of Nara, Japan.source
  • 2025October 21 – Sanae Takaichi becomes the first female Prime Minister of Japan.source

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