The prime minister of Japan is the head of the executive branch and chief minister of the government of Japan. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day. The office is currently held by Fumio Kishida. Those prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a mandate from the emperor. The "electoral mandates" shown are for the lower house of the Imperial Diet that was not constitutionally guaranteed to have any influence on the appointment of the prime minister.
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- Itō Hirobumi
- Kuroda Kiyotaka
- Sanjō Sanetomi
- Yamagata Aritomo
- Matsukata Masayoshi
- Ōkuma Shigenobu
- Katsura Tarō
- Saionji Kinmochi
- Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
- Terauchi Masatake
- Hara Takashi
- Uchida Kosai
- Takahashi Korekiyo
- Katō Tomosaburō
- Kiyoura Keigo
- Katō Takaaki
- Wakatsuki Reijirō
- Tanaka Giichi
- Hamaguchi Osachi
- Kijūrō Shidehara
- Inukai Tsuyoshi
- Takahashi Korekiyo
- Saitō Makoto
- Keisuke Okada
- Fumio Gotō
- Kōki Hirota
- Senjūrō Hayashi
- Fumimaro Konoe
- Kiichirō Hiranuma
- Nobuyuki Abe
- Mitsumasa Yonai
- Fumimaro Konoe
- Hideki Tōjō
- Kuniaki Koiso
- Kantarō Suzuki
- Naruhiko Higashikuni
- Kijūrō Shidehara
- Shigeru Yoshida
- Tetsu Katayama
- Hitoshi Ashida
- Ichirō Hatoyama
- Tanzan Ishibashi
- Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan
- Hayato Ikeda
- Eisaku Satō, Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Peace Prize, 1974
- Kakuei Tanaka
- Takeo Miki
- Takeo Fukuda
- Masayoshi Ōhira
- Masayoshi Ito
- Zenkō Suzuki
- Yasuhiro Nakasone
- Noboru Takeshita
- Sōsuke Uno
- Toshiki Kaifu
- Kiichi Miyazawa
- Morihiro Hosokawa
- Tsutomu Hata
- Tomiichi Murayama
- Ryūtarō Hashimoto
- Keizō Obuchi
- Yoshirō Mori
- Junichiro Koizumi
- Shinzo Abe
- Yasuo Fukuda
- Tarō Asō
- Yukio Hatoyama
- Naoto Kan
- Yoshihiko Noda
- Yoshihide Suga
- Fumio Kishida