Minister of Finance (Japan)

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox official post The Template:Nihongo is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Finance. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council and is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan.

Until 2001, the Japanese title was Template:Nihongo. Both the current and previous title are translated as "Minister of Finance".

The current minister is Satsuki Katayama, who took office on 21 October 2025.

List of ministers

Prewar (1900–1946)

# Name Took office Left office
1 Masayoshi Matsukata 1885 1892
Watanabe Kunitake 1892 1895
2 Masakata Matsukata 1895 1895
3 Watanabe Kunitake 1895 1896
4 Masayoshi Matsukata 1896 1898
5 Inoue Kaoru 1898 1898
6 Matsuda Masahisa 1898 1898
7 Masakata Matsukata 1898 1900
8 Watanabe Kunitake 1900 1901
9 Saionji Kinmochi 1901 1901
10 Sone Arasuke 1901 1906
11 Yoshiro Sakatani 1906 1908
12 Matsuda Masahisa 1908 1908
Katsura Tarō 1908 1911
Yamamoto Tatsuo 1911 1912
Wakatsuki Reijirō Template:Br (1st) 1912 1913
Takahashi Korekiyo Template:Br (1st) 1913 1914
Wakatsuki Reijirō Template:Br (2nd) 1914 1915
Taketomi Tokitoshi 1915 1916
Terauchi Masatake 1916 1916
Kazue Shōda Template:Br (1st) 1916 1918
Takahashi Korekiyo Template:Br (2nd) 1918 1922
Otohiko Ichiki 1922 1923
Junnosuke Inoue Template:Br (1st) 1923 1924
Kazue Shōda Template:Br (2nd) 1924 1924
Osachi Hamaguchi 1924 1925
Seiji Hayami 1925 1925
Kataoka Naoharu 1925 1927
Takahashi Korekiyo Template:Br (3rd) 1927 1927
Chuzo Mitsuchi 1927 1929
Junnosuke Inoue Template:Br (2nd) 1929 1931
Takahashi Korekiyo Template:Br (4th) 1931 1934
Sadanobu Fujii 1934 1934
Takahashi Korekiyo Template:Br (5th) 1934 1936
Machida Chūji 1936 1936
Eiichi Baba 1936 1937
Toyotaro Yuki<ref>Fuji Ginkō. (1967). Banking in modern Japan, p. 125.</ref> 1937 1937
Okinori Kaya Template:Br (1st) 1937 1938
Shigeaki Ikeda 1938 1939
Sotaro Ishiwata Template:Br (1st) 1939 1939
Kazuo Aoki 1939 1940
Yukio Sakurauchi 1940 1940
Isao Kawada 1940 1941
Masatsune Ogura 1941 1941
Okinori Kaya Template:Br (2nd) 1941 1944
Sotaro Ishiwata Template:Br (2nd) 1944 1945
Juichi Tsushima 1945 1945
Toyosaku Hirose 1945 1945
Juichi Tsushima Template:Br (2nd) 1945 1945
Keizō Shibusawa 1945 1946

Postwar (1946–present)

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Finance Minister Term of office Prime Minister
# Portrait Name Took office Left office Days
32 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tanzan Ishibashi May 22, 1946 May 24, 1947 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shigeru Yoshida
- style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tetsu Katayama
(Acting) 		May 24, 1947 June 1, 1947 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Tetsu Katayama
33 Shōtarō Yano June 1, 1947 June 25, 1947 Template:Age in days
34 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Takeo Kurusu June 25, 1947 March 10, 1948 Template:Age in days
35 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tokutarō Kitamura March 10, 1948 October 15, 1948 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hitoshi Ashida
36 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Sanroku Izumiyama October 19, 1948 December 14, 1948 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Shigeru Yoshida
37 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shinzō Ōya
(Interim) 		December 14, 1948 February 16, 1949 Template:Age in days
38 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hayato Ikeda February 16, 1949 October 30, 1952 Template:Age in days
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39 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tadaharu Mukai October 30, 1952 May 21, 1953 Template:Age in days
40 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Sankurō Ogasawara May 21, 1953 December 10, 1954 Template:Age in days
41 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hisato Ichimada December 10, 1954 November 22, 1955 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ichirō Hatoyama
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | November 22, 1955 December 23, 1956 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
(38) style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Hayato Ikeda December 23, 1956 July 10, 1957 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tanzan Ishibashi
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Nobusuke Kishi
(41) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hisato Ichimada July 10, 1957 June 12, 1958 Template:Age in days
42 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Eisaku Satō June 12, 1958 July 19, 1960 Template:Age in days
43 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Mikio Mizuta July 19, 1960 July 18, 1962 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Hayato Ikeda
44 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kakuei Tanaka July 18, 1962 June 3, 1965 Template:Age in days
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5| Eisaku Satō
45 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Takeo Fukuda June 3, 1965 December 3, 1966 Template:Age in days
(43) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Mikio Mizuta December 3, 1966 November 30, 1968 Template:Age in days
(45) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Takeo Fukuda November 30, 1968 July 5, 1971 Template:Age in days
(43) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Mikio Mizuta July 5, 1971 July 7, 1972 Template:Age in days
46 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Koshiro Ueki July 7, 1972 December 22, 1972 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4| Kakuei Tanaka
47 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Kiichi Aichi December 22, 1972 November 23, 1973 Template:Age in days
(45) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Takeo Fukuda November 25, 1973 July 16, 1974 Template:Age in days
48 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Masayoshi Ōhira July 16, 1974 December 24, 1976 Template:Age in days
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Takeo Miki
49 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hideo Bo December 24, 1976 November 28, 1977 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Takeo Fukuda
50 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tatsuo Murayama November 28, 1977 December 7, 1978 Template:Age in days
51 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ippei Kaneko December 7, 1978 November 9, 1979 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Masayoshi Ōhira
52 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Noboru Takeshita November 9, 1979 July 17, 1980 Template:Age in days
53 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Michio Watanabe July 17, 1980 November 27, 1982 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Zenkō Suzuki
(52) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Noboru Takeshita November 27, 1982 July 22, 1986 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Yasuhiro Nakasone
54 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kiichi Miyazawa July 22, 1986 December 9, 1988 Template:Age in days
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Noboru Takeshita
(52) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Noboru Takeshita
(Acting) 		December 9, 1988 December 27, 1988 Template:Age in days
(50) style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Tatsuo Murayama December 27, 1988 August 10, 1989 Template:Age in days
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Sosuke Uno
55 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ryutaro Hashimoto August 10, 1989 October 14, 1991 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Toshiki Kaifu
- style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Toshiki Kaifu
(Acting) 		October 14, 1991 November 5, 1991 Template:Age in days
56 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tsutomu Hata November 5, 1991 December 12, 1992 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kiichi Miyazawa
57 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshiro Hayashi December 12, 1992 August 9, 1993 Template:Age in days
58 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Hirohisa Fujii August 9, 1993 June 30, 1994 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Morihiro Hosokawa
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tsutomu Hata
59 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Masayoshi Takemura June 30, 1994 January 11, 1996 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Tomiichi Murayama
60 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Wataru Kubo January 11, 1996 November 7, 1996 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Ryutaro Hashimoto
61 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka November 7, 1996 January 28, 1998 Template:Age in days
62 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Hikaru Matsunaga.jpg Hikaru Matsunaga January 30, 1998 July 30, 1998 Template:Age in days
(54) style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Kiichi Miyazawa July 30, 1998 April 26, 2001 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Keizo Obuchi
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshirō Mori
63 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Masajuro Shiokawa cropped 2 Finance Ministers of G7 20030412.jpg Masajuro Shiokawa April 26, 2001 September 22, 2003 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Junichiro Koizumi
64 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Tanigaki Sadakazu 1-2.jpg Sadakazu Tanigaki September 22, 2003 September 26, 2006 Template:Age in days
65 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Koji Omi.jpg Kōji Omi September 26, 2006 August 27, 2007 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Shinzō Abe
66 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| File:Nukaga Fukushiro 1-2.jpg Fukushiro Nukaga August 27, 2007 August 2, 2008 Template:Age in days
style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Yasuo Fukuda
67 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:사본 -8632564647 fb1ba67294 o.jpg Bunmei Ibuki August 2, 2008 September 24, 2008 Template:Age in days
68 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Shoichi Nakagawa cropped.jpg Shōichi Nakagawa September 24, 2008 February 18, 2009 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Tarō Asō
69 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kaoru Yosano cropped 1 Timothy Geithner and Kaoru Yosano 20090424.jpg Kaoru Yosano February 18, 2009 September 16, 2009 Template:Age in days
(58) style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Hirohisa Fujii September 16, 2009 January 6, 2010 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Yukio Hatoyama
70 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Kan Naoto.jpg Naoto Kan January 6, 2010 June 8, 2010 Template:Age in days
71 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Secretary Geithner Greets Japanese Prime Minister Noda (8079678592) cropped.jpg Yoshihiko Noda June 8, 2010 September 2, 2011 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Naoto Kan
72 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Minister Azumi.jpg Jun Azumi September 2, 2011 October 1, 2012 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Yoshihiko Noda
73 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Koriki Jojima.jpg Koriki Jojima October 1, 2012 December 26, 2012 Template:Age in days
74 rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Tarō Asō 20121226.jpg Tarō Asō December 26, 2012 October 4, 2021 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Shinzō Abe
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Yoshihide Suga
75 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Shunichi Suzuki 20211004.jpg Shun'ichi Suzuki October 4, 2021 October 1, 2024 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fumio Kishida
76 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Katsunobu Katō 20241001 (cropped).jpg Katsunobu Katō October 1, 2024 October 21, 2025 Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Shigeru Ishiba
77 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Satsuki Katayama.jpg Satsuki Katayama October 21, 2025 Incumbent Template:Age in days style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Sanae Takaichi

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