Here is the Cabinet for new Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko, announced last week. Below are more than 100 links to the official home pages of all of the Ministries and Ministers (In Japanese, and English where available), as well as English profiles of all of the Ministers.

Prime Minister
(首相官邸) http://www.kantei.go.jp/
ENG: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
Noda Yoshihiko (野田佳彦) (54)
JPN [...]

Noda Yoshihiko won the DPJ leadership election today, setting him up to be the next Prime Minister of Japan. He won in a run-off ballot over Ozawa favorite Kaieda Banri, 215 votes to 177.

The first round of ballots saw Kaieda lead with 143 votes to Noda’s 102, with popular Maehara third with 74 votes.

Photo Source: Asahi Shimbun.

Facing a vote of no-confidence in the Japanese Diet today, which it appeared he was set to lose with a large chunk of his own party joining with the opposition, Prime Minister Kan Naoto has announced that he will resign from his position at a future date. Just when this will [...]

The Japan Times had an editorial yesterday, which began with the following sentence:

Prime Minister Naoto Kan faced more pressure Tuesday from his own ruling party as well as the opposition parties to resign amid the pressing national tasks of bringing the nuclear crisis under control and rebuilding the Tohoku region struck by the March [...]

One of my pet peeves about life in Japan is the emergence of the dreaded election cars just before elections. There are city elections here in the coming days, and for a week or so there have been cars driving around the neighborhood blaring out their messages for the voters as they go. In Japan, [...]

According to a new NTV poll, conducted between the 15th and 17th of April, 17.2% of respondents approved of the Prime Minister Kan’s handling of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident. 68.5% answered that they didn’t approve, and a further 14.3% were unsure. Kan has been taking a battering in the media and from the [...]

It was probably a natural thing to do, but the cynic inside of me wonders about the politics behind the Prime Minister’s meeting this morning with former party leaders Ozawa Ichiro, Hatoyama Yukio, and Maehara Seiji. The meeting was ostensibly held at the PM’s request, to pick the brains of the party’s former leaders, and [...]

I have a feeling that we are in for a long period of sickening headlines and T-shirts… With a name like ‘Kan’, the Prime Minister is well set up for puns and merchandising, not to mention newspaper and blog headlines.

According to a Japan Times article today, an online retailer, Club T, has begun [...]

Here are all the links you will need for the Kan Cabinet, announced yesterday. There are more than 100 links to Japanese and English home pages and profiles of cabinet members, as well as their ministries.

Prime Minister

(首相官邸) http://www.kantei.go.jp/
ENG: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html

Kan Naoto (菅直人) (63)
JPN HP: http://www.n-kan.jp/
ENG DPJ Profile: http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/member/?detail_80=1
ENG Wiki Profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoto_Kan
ENG BBC Profile: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3249613.stm
ENG JT Profile: [...]

With the resignation of Hatoyama Yukio last week, Kan Naoto became the fifth man to hold the post of Japanese Prime Minister since September 2006. Since this time, Abe Shinzo (1 year), Fukuda Yasuo (1 year), Aso Taro (1 year), and Hatoyama Yukio (8.5 months) have all failed to govern beyond their first anniversary… Indeed, [...]