Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (総務大臣, Soumu Daijin) is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 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.

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
総務大臣
Emblem of the Government of Japan
Incumbent Seiichiro Murakami since 1 October 2024
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Style	His Excellency
Member of	Cabinet of Japan National Security Council
Reports to	Prime Minister of Japan
Nominator	Prime Minister of Japan
Appointer	Emperor of Japan attested to by the Emperor
Precursor	Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Minister for Home Affairs Director-General of the Internal Affairs and Communications Bureau
Formation	January 6, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-01-06)
Deputy	State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
Salary	¥20,916,000

The current minister is Seiichiro Murakami, who took office on October 1, 2024.

List of ministers for internal affairs and communications (2001–)

  Liberal Democratic
  Democratic
  Independent

Internal Affairs Minister				Term of office			Prime Minister
#	Portrait		Name	Took office	Left office	Days
1			Toranosuke Katayama	January 6, 2001	September 22, 2003	989		Yoshirō Mori
								Junichiro Koizumi
2			Taro Aso	September 22, 2003	October 31, 2005	770
3			Heizō Takenaka	October 31, 2005	September 26, 2006	330
4			Yoshihide Suga	September 26, 2006	August 27, 2007	335		Shinzō Abe
5			Hiroya Masuda	August 27, 2007	September 24, 2008	394
								Yasuo Fukuda
6			Kunio Hatoyama	September 24, 2008	June 12, 2009	261		Taro Aso
7			Tsutomu Sato	June 12, 2009	September 16, 2009	96
8			Kazuhiro Haraguchi	September 16, 2009	September 17, 2010	366		Yukio Hatoyama
								Naoto Kan
9			Yoshihiro Katayama	September 17, 2010	September 2, 2011	350
10			Tatsuo Kawabata	September 2, 2011	October 1, 2012	395		Yoshihiko Noda
11			Shinji Tarutoko	October 1, 2012	December 26, 2012	86
12			Yoshitaka Shindō	December 26, 2012	September 3, 2014	616		Shinzō Abe
14			Sanae Takaichi	September 3, 2014	August 3, 2017	1065
15			Seiko Noda	August 3, 2017	October 2, 2018	425
16			Masatoshi Ishida	October 2, 2018	September 11, 2019	344
(14)			Sanae Takaichi	September 11, 2019	September 16, 2020	371
17			Ryota Takeda	September 16, 2020	October 4, 2021	383		Yoshihide Suga
18			Yasushi Kaneko	October 4, 2021	August 10, 2022	310		Fumio Kishida
19			Minoru Terada	August 10, 2022	November 20, 2022	102
20			Takeaki Matsumoto	November 21, 2022	September 13, 2023	296
21			Junji Suzuki	September 13, 2023	December 14, 2023	92
(20)			Takeaki Matsumoto	December 14, 2023	October 1, 2024	292
22			Seiichiro Murakami	October 1, 2024	Incumbent	307		Shigeru Ishiba
Reference: soumu.go.jp