Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (文部科学大臣 Monbu-kagaku Daijin) is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2001-)

  Liberal Democratic
  Independent
  Democratic

Minister				Term of office			Prime Minister
#	Portrait		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Days
1			Nobutaka Machimura	January 6, 2001	April 26, 2001	110		Yoshiro Mori
2			Atsuko Tōyama	April 26, 2001	September 22, 2003	879		Junichiro Koizumi
3			Takeo Kawamura	September 22, 2003	September 27, 2004	371
4			Nariaki Nakayama	September 27, 2004	October 31, 2005	399
5			Kenji Kosaka	October 31, 2005	September 26, 2006	330
6			Bunmei Ibuki	September 26, 2006	September 26, 2007	365		Shinzo Abe
7			Kisaburo Tokai	September 26, 2007	August 2, 2008	311		Yasuo Fukuda
8			Tsuneo Suzuki	August 2, 2008	September 24, 2008	53
9			Ryū Shionoya	September 24, 2008	September 16, 2009	357		Taro Aso
10			Tatsuo Kawabata	September 16, 2009	September 21, 2010	370		Yukio Hatoyama
								Naoto Kan
11			Yoshiaki Takaki	September 21, 2010	September 2, 2011	346
12			Masaharu Nakagawa	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012	395		Yoshihiko Noda
13			Makiko Tanaka	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012	86
14			Hakubun Shimomura	December 26, 2012	October 7, 2015	1015		Shinzo Abe
15			Hiroshi Hase	October 7, 2015	August 3, 2016	301
16			Hirokazu Matsuno	August 3, 2016	Incumbent	124