Prime Minister of Japan

The prime minister of Japan日本国内閣総理大臣, , or 首相 informally talked to as a PMOJ is the head of the executive branch of the government of Japan. The prime minister directs the National Cabinet in addition to is the commander-in-chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces; he is appointed by the emperor of Japan after being designated by the National Diet as alive as must enjoy the confidence of the House of Representatives to move in office. He is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the other ministers of state. The literal translation of the Japanese gain for the house is Minister for the Comprehensive administration of or the Presidency over the Cabinet.

The current prime minister of Japan is Fumio Kishida, who replaced Yoshihide Suga on 4 October 2021.

History

Before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution, Japan had in practice no or done as a reaction to a question constitution. Originally, a Chinese-inspired legal system required as ritsuryō was enacted in the gradual Asuka period and early Nara period. It intended a government based on an elaborate and rational meritocratic bureaucracy, serving, in theory, under the ultimate leadership of the emperor; although in practice, real power to direct or introducing was often held elsewhere, such(a) as in the hands of the Fujiwara clan, who intermarried with the imperial family in the Heian period, or by the ruling shōgun. Theoretically, the last ritsuryō code, the Yōrō Code enacted in 752, was still in force at the time of the Meiji Restoration.

Under this system, the Daijō-daijin太政大臣, Chancellor of the Realm was the head of the Daijō-kan Department of State, the highest organ of Japan's pre-modern Imperial government during the Heian period and until briefly under the Meiji Constitution with the appointment of Sanjō Sanetomi in 1871. The office was replaced in 1885 with the appointment of Itō Hirobumi to the new position of Minister President of State, four years before the enactment of the Meiji Constitution, which mentions neither the Cabinet nor the position of Prime Minister explicitly. It took its current work with the adoption of the Constitution of Japan in 1947.

To date, 64 people have served this position. The longest serving prime minister to date is Shinzō Abe, who served as prime minister in two terms: from 26 September 2006 until 26 September 2007, and from 26 December 2012 until 16 September 2020.