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Prime Minister of Japan

head of government of Japan

26 dated entries naming Prime Minister of Japan, drawn from 22 separate years between 1848 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.

Also written as Japanese Prime Minister, Japanese prime minister in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1848January 4 - Katsura Tarō (died 1913), general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 1868January 18 – Suzuki Kantarō, admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (died 1948)source
  • 1884December 30 – Hideki Tojo, Japanese general, 27th prime minister of Japan (died 1948)source
  • 1884December 30 - Hideki Tojo (died 1948), leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and the 40th Prime Minister of Japansource
  • 1895May 5 – Prime Minister of Japan Ito Hirobumi announces withdrawal of Japanese troops from Liaodong Peninsulasource
  • 1898January 12 – Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister.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) (born 1841)source
  • 1911August 30 – Saionji Kinmochi is appointed Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 1920May 10 – In the general election, the Rikken Seiyūkai, led by Prime Minister Hara Takashi, increases on its majority of seats in the lower house of the Diet.source
  • 1931December 13 – Wakatsuki Reijirō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 1936March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota.source
  • 1941October 18 – General Hideki Tōjō becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 1944July 18 – Hideki 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
  • 1948December 23 – Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1884)source
  • 1950December 12: Hayato Ikeda, future Prime Minister of Japan, remarks in the National Diet that "the poor should eat barley".source
  • 1954September 21 – Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)source
  • 1989April 25 – Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of Japan in the wake of a stock-trading scandal.source
  • 1989April 25: Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announces his resignation following a stock-trading scandal.source

21st century

  • 2001April 26 – Junichiro Koizumi becomes the 86th Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 2003The Nikkei benchmark hit a 20-year low record as war in Iraq appears closer, alleged stock manipulation by Nikko Salomon Smith Barney came to light, North Korea is preparing to test fire a mid-range missile, and a new political scandal in the party of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi came to light.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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