Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

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 Health, Labour and Welfare. The minister is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan.

Minister Kenichiro Ueno took office on 21 October 2025.

List of ministers of health, labour and welfare (2001–)

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Minister				Term of office			Prime Minister
#	Portrait		Name	Took office	Left office	Days
1	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	File:Chikara Sakaguchi 200012.jpg	Chikara Sakaguchi	January 6, 2001	September 27, 2004	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yoshirō Mori
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|						Junichiro Koizumi
2	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Hidehisa Otsuji cropped 2 Hidehisa Otsuji 200409.jpg	Hidehisa Otsuji	September 27, 2004	October 31, 2005	Template:Age in days
3	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Jiro Kawasaki 1998.jpg	Jirō Kawasaki	October 31, 2005	September 26, 2006	Template:Age in days
4	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Hakuo Yanagisawa 2006.jpg	Hakuo Yanagisawa	September 26, 2006	August 27, 2007	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Shinzō Abe
5	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	File:Yoichi Masuzoe 2007 (cropped).jpg	Yōichi Masuzoe	August 27, 2007	September 16, 2009	Template:Age in days
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |						Yasuo Fukuda
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |						Tarō Asō
6	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	File:Akira Nagatsuma 2009 (cropped).jpg	Akira Nagatsuma	September 16, 2009	September 17, 2010	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yukio Hatoyama
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|						Naoto Kan
7	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Ritsuo Hosokawa 2009 (cropped).jpg	Ritsuo Hosokawa	September 17, 2010	September 2, 2011	Template:Age in days
8	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Yōko Komiyama.jpg	Yoko Komiyama	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Yoshihiko Noda
9	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Wakio Mitsui 2010.jpg	Wakio Mitsui	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012	Template:Age in days
10	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Norihisa Tamura 20200916.jpg	Norihisa Tamura	December 26, 2012	September 3, 2014	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5|	Shinzō Abe
11	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Yasuhisa Shiozaki.jpg	Yasuhisa Shiozaki	September 3, 2014	August 3, 2017	Template:Age in days
12	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Katsunobu Katō 20170803.jpg	Katsunobu Katō	August 3, 2017	October 2, 2018	Template:Age in days
13	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Takumi Nemoto 20120907.jpg	Takumi Nemoto	October 2, 2018	September 11, 2019	Template:Age in days
(12)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Katsunobu Katō (cropped).jpg	Katsunobu Katō	September 11, 2019	September 16, 2020	Template:Age in days
(10)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Norihisa Tamura 20200916.jpg	Norihisa Tamura	September 16, 2020	October 4, 2021	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yoshihide Suga
14	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Shigeyuki Gotō 20211004.jpg	Shigeyuki Goto	October 4, 2021	August 10, 2022	Template:Age in days	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Fumio Kishida
(12)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Katsunobu Katō 20201017 (cropped) (2).jpg	Katsunobu Katō	August 10, 2022	September 13, 2023	Template:Age in days
15	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Keizō Takemi 20180514 (cropped).jpg	Keizō Takemi	September 13, 2023	October 1, 2024	Template:Age in days
16	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Takamaro Fukuoka (cropped).jpg	Takamaro Fukuoka	October 1, 2024	October 21, 2025	385	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Shigeru Ishiba
17	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Kenichirō Ueno 20170915 (cropped).jpg	Kenichiro Ueno	October 21, 2025	Incumbent	Template:Age in days	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Sanae Takaichi

External links

• Official website

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