List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Japan
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List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Japan
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Below is a list of office-holders:
House of Representatives of Japan
The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...
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Below is a list of office-holders:
| Name | Entered office | Left office |
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| Nobuyuki Nakajima | November 11, 1890 | December 25, 1891 |
| Tōru Hoshi | May 2, 1892 | December 13, 1893 |
| Masataka Kusumoto | December 13, 1893 | May 1896 |
| Kazuo Hatoyama Kazuo Hatoyama was the patriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family which has been called "Japan's Kennedy family."Kazuo was a graduate of Yale University.-Family:... |
December 25, 1896 | December 25, 1897 |
| Kenkichi Kataoka | May 19, 1897 | December 5, 1903 |
| Hironaka Kōno | December 5, 1903 | December 11,1903 |
| Masahisa Matsuda | April 20, 1904 | January 7, 1906 |
| Teichi Sugita | January 7, 1906 | March 26, 1908 |
| Sumitaka Haseba | December 25, 1908 | August 30, 1911 |
| Ikuzō Ōoka | December 27, 1911 | March 6, 1914 |
| Sumitaka Hasheba | March 6, 1914 | March 15, 1914 |
| Shigesaburō Oku | March 1914 | December 25, 1914 |
| Saburō Shimada | May 20, 1915 | January 25, 1917 |
| Ikuzō Ōoka | June 23, 1917 | February 26, 1920 |
| Shigesaburō Oku | June 29, 1920 | February 1923 |
| Kasuya Gizō | February 1923 | March 25, 1927 |
| Shigeru Morita | May 4, 1927 | January 21, 1928 |
| Hajide Motoda | April 23, 1928 | March 1929 |
| Mosuke Kawahara | March 1929 | |
| Zenbē Horikiri | December 26, 1929 | January 21, 1930 |
| Ikunosuke Fujisawa | April 23, 1930 | |
| Kejirō Nakamura | December 26, 1931 | |
| Kiyoshi Akita Kiyoshi Akita , was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving as a member of the Lower House of the Diet of Japan for ten terms, and twice as a cabinet minister... |
March 20, 1932 | |
| Kunimatsu Hamada | December 26, 1934 | |
| Kōjirō Tomita | May 4, 1936 | March 21, 1937 |
| Shōju Koyama | July 25, 1937 | |
| Kazutami Tago | December 26, 1941 | April 29, 1942 |
| Tadahiko Okada | May 27, 1942 | June 9, 1945 |
| Toshio Shimada | June 9, 1945 | December 18, 1945 |
| Senzō Higai | May 16, 1946 | August, 1946 |
| Takeshi Yamazaki | August 24, 1946 | March 31, 1947 |
| Komakichi Matsuoka | May 21, 1947 | December 23, 1948 |
| Kijūrō Shidehara Kijuro Shidehara Baron was a prominent pre–World War II Japanese diplomat and the 44th Prime Minister of Japan from 9 October 1945 to 22 May 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II, and was also the last Japanese prime minister who was a member of the kazoku... |
February 11, 1949 | March 10, 1951 |
| Jōji Hayashi | March 13, 1951 | August 1, 1958 |
| Bamboko Ōno | August 26, 1952 | March 14, 1953 |
| Yasujirō Tsutsumi Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a Japanese entrepreneur, politician, and business tycoon who founded a dynasty which became the wealthiest, most influential family of 20th century Japan.-Peasant farmer :... |
May 18, 1953 | December 10, 1954 |
| Tō Matsunaga | December 11, 1954 | January 24, 1951 |
| Shūji Masutani | March 18, 1955 | April 25, 1958 |
| Nirō Hoshijima | June 11, 1958 | December 13, 1958 |
| Ryogōrō Katō | December 13, 1958 | February 1, 1960 |
| Ichirō Kiyose | February 1, 1960 | October 23, 1963 |
| Naka Funada | December 7, 1963 | December 20, 1965 |
| Kikuichirō Yamaguchi | December 20, 1965 | December 3, 1966 |
| Kentarō Ayabe | December 3, 1966 | December 27, 1966 |
| Mitsujirō Ishii | February 15, 1967 | July 16, 1969 |
| Takechiyo Matsuda | December 3, 1969 | December 27, 1969 |
| Naka Funada | January 14, 1970 | November 13, 1972 |
| Umekichi Nakamura | December 22, 1972 | May 29, 1973 |
| Shigesaburō Maeo | May 29, 1973 | December 9, 1976 |
| Shigeru Hori | December 24, 1976 | February 1, 1979 |
| Hirokichi Nadao | February 1, 1979 | May 19, 1980 |
| Hajime Fukuda | July 17, 1980 | November 28, 1983 |
| Kenji Fukunaga | December 26, 1983 | January 24, 1985 |
| Michita Sakata | January 24, 1985 | June 2, 1986 |
| Kensaburō Hara | July 22, 1986 | June 2, 1989 |
| Hajime Tamura | June 2, 1989 | January 24, 1990 |
| Yoshio Sakurauchi | February 27, 1990 | June 18, 1993 |
| Takako Doi Takako Doi was a prominent Japanese politician from 1980 until her retirement in 2005.Doi was born in Hyōgo Prefecture and graduated from Doshisha University, where she studied law. She was elected to the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Diet, as a member of the Japan Socialist Party in 1969,... |
August 6, 1993 | September 27, 1996 |
| Sōichirō Itō | November 7, 1996 | June 2, 2000 |
| Tamisuke Watanuki Tamisuke Watanuki Tamisuke Watanuki is a Japanese politician from the Toyama Prefecture. He started his own export-import company at age 28.... |
July 4, 2000 | October 10, 2003 |
| Yōhei Kōno Yohei Kono is a Japanese politician and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from November 2003 until August 2009, when the LDP lost its majority in the 2009 election... |
November 19, 2003 | July 21, 2009 |
| Takahiro Yokomichi Takahiro Yokomichi is a Japanese politician who belongs to the Democratic Party of Japan and is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Sapporo, Hokkaidō and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the first of his five terms in the House of Representatives in 1969 as a... |
September 16, 2009 | Incumbent |