Yoshihide Suga

Yoshihide Suga ( 菅 義偉 , Suga Yoshihide, [sɯɡa joɕiꜜçide], born 6

His Excellency
December 1948) is a Japanese politician serving as the current prime
minister of Japan. He was the chief cabinet secretary under Prime Yoshihide Suga
Minister Shinzo Abe from 2012 to 2020 and minister for internal
affairs and communications from 2006 to 2007.
菅 義偉
Born to a family of strawberry farmers in rural Akita Prefecture, Suga
moved to Tokyo after graduating from high school, where he enrolled
in Hosei University.[1] Shortly after graduating with a Bachelor of
Laws, Suga became an aide to Representative Hikosaburo Okonogi
in 1975 before entering politics himself when he was elected to the
Yokohama Municipal Assembly in 1987.[2] In the 1996 election,
Suga was elected to the House of Representatives, representing
Kanagawa's 2nd District as a member of the LDP.

During his time in the Diet, Suga became a close ally of Chief
Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe. When Abe first became Prime
Minister in 2006, he appointed Suga to the Cabinet as Minister for
Internal Affairs and Communications. Abe later appointed Suga as Suga in September 2020
Chief Cabinet Secretary in 2012 upon his return as Prime Minister, a Prime Minister of Japan
role Suga would hold throughout Abe's second term.[3] He is the
Incumbent
longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese history. In
September 2020, after Abe announced his retirement from politics, Assumed office
Suga declared his candidacy in the LDP leadership election. Widely 16 September 2020
considered the frontrunner, Suga comfortably won the election on 14 Monarch Naruhito
September with 70% of the vote. Two days later, he was formally
elected Prime Minister by the Diet and appointed by Emperor Deputy Tarō Asō
Naruhito, making him the first new Prime Minister of the Reiwa Preceded by Shinzō Abe
era.[4] President of the Liberal
Democratic Party
Suga has stated that his premiership will focus on continuing the
Incumbent
policies and goals of the Abe administration, including the Abenomics
suite of economics policies, the revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Assumed office
Constitution, and securing the release of Japanese abductees from 14 September 2020
North Korea.[5] Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai
Preceded by Shinzo Abe
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Contents In office
Early life and education 26 December 2012 – 16 September
2020
Political career
Chief Cabinet Secretary (2012–2020) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan Preceded by Osamu
Fujimura
Personal life
Succeeded by Katsunobu
References
External links Katō
Minister for Internal Affairs and
Communications
Early life and education In office
26 September 2006 – 27 August
Suga was born to a family of strawberry farmers in Ogachi (now 2007
Yuzawa), a rural area in Akita Prefecture, and moved to Tokyo after
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
graduation from Yuzawa High School. He attended night school to
obtain a Bachelor of Laws from Hosei University in 1973.[6][7] Suga Preceded by Heizō
chose Hosei "because it was the cheapest option available" and he Takenaka
"worked in a cardboard factory in Tokyo to pay his tuition".[8] Succeeded by Hiroya Masuda
Member of the House of
Political career Representatives
for Kanagawa 2nd district

After graduating from Incumbent

university, Suga worked on a Assumed office
House of Councillors (upper 20 October 1996
house) election campaign, Preceded by Constituency
and thereafter worked as
established
secretary to LDP Diet
Member Hikosaburo Majority 76,027
Okonogi, father of LDP (34.6%)
politician Hachiro Okonogi, Personal details
Suga with Ichita Yamamoto and for eleven years. Suga
Satsuki Katayama (19 September resigned from this position in Born 6 December
2006) October 1986 to pursue his 1948
own career in politics.[9] He Yuzawa, Japan
was elected to the Yokohama Political party Liberal
City Council in April 1987, campaigning door-to-door on foot, Democratic
visiting as many as 30,000 houses and wearing through six pairs of
shoes.[10][11] He pioneered the practice of giving campaign speeches Spouse(s) Mariko Suga
in front of busy train stations, which is now common among Japanese Children 3
political candidates.[12] Alma mater Hosei
Suga was elected to the Diet of Japan in the 1996 general election, University
representing the Kanagawa 2nd district. In his third year in the Diet, (LLB)
he shifted his support from Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to former Website Official website
LDP Secretary-General Seiroku Kajiyama, an unusual move for a (http://www.su
junior legislator.[13][12] He was re-elected in the 2000 general gayoshihide.gr.
election, 2003 general election, and 2005 general election. jp)
He was appointed Senior Vice Minister for Internal Affairs and
Communications in November 2005 under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He was promoted to Minister of
Internal Affairs and Communications and Minister for Privatization of the Postal Services in the first Shinzo
Abe cabinet in September 2006, and added the portfolio of Minister of State for Decentralization Reform in
December 2006.[10] He was instrumental in the development of Japan's "hometown donation" ( ふるさと納
税 , furusato nōzei) system, which allowed taxpayers to obtain deductions by donating money to local
governments.[6] He was replaced by Hiroya Masuda in a cabinet reshuffle in August 2007.[14]

His "street-corner" campaigning style was credited with holding his seat in the 2009 general election, when
many other LDP lawmakers lost their seats amid a surge in support for the Democratic Party of Japan.[13]
In October 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the LDP Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters. In
September 2012, he was appointed Executive Acting Secretary-General of the LDP.[10]

Chief Cabinet Secretary (2012–2020)

Suga remained close to Shinzo Abe during the late 2000s and early
2010s, and urged Abe to run for the LDP presidency in 2012.[6]
Unlike many of Abe's other allies, Suga pushed Abe to focus on the
economy rather than Abe's long-standing ambition to revise Article 9
of the Constitution, which prohibits Japan from using a military as
means of settling international disputes.[13]

Following Abe's victory in the 2012 general election, Suga was

Suga (right) shaking hands with U.S.
appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary in the second Abe cabinet in
Trade Representative Michael
December 2012. In September 2014, he was given the additional
Froman in 2013
portfolio of Minister in charge of Alleviating the Burden of the Bases
in Okinawa.[10] Suga and Tarō Asō were the only members of the
December 2012 cabinet who remained in the cabinet as of November
2019.[15] Suga is by far the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary
in Japanese history, serving his post for a total of 2,820 days; the
second longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yasuo Fukuda,
served for a total of 1,289 days, less than half as long as Suga.[3]

As Chief Cabinet Secretary, Suga served as an aide and advisor to

Abe, often calling him as Abe's "Right Hand Man", and took an
active managerial role in the government. He had a key role in the
Suga (third from right) at the
government's initiatives to attract tourists and foreign workers and
announcement of the Okinawa
Consolidation Plan in 2013
reduce mobile telephone rates.[8] He formed a team to reexamine the
lead-up to the Kono Statement of 1993 but the group was soon after
disbanded without ever reaching a consensus.[16] He was affiliated
with the openly nationalist organisation Nippon Kaigi.[17] Under Abe, Suga overcame party resistance to
implement a visa program that opened the doors for unskilled foreign workers, a shift from the previous policy,
which centered on internship programs that often confined foreign workers to low-paying jobs.[18] He was
also supportive of the aggressive measures by the Bank of Japan to counter deflation.[19] In 2015, he was
criticized for publicly encouraging Japanese women to "contribute to their country by feeling like they want to
have more children".[20] He continued to hold his seat in the 2014 general election and 2017 general election.

Suga gained domestic and international fame when he announced the name of the new imperial era, Reiwa, on
1 April 2019, earning him the nickname "Uncle Reiwa" (Reiwa Ojisan).[21][22] While he had previously been
a low-profile member of the government, this honor gave him an instant surge in name recognition and led
more LDP lawmakers to view him as a viable candidate for party leadership.[6][15] He was sent to Washington
in May 2019 for a meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials, fueling speculation
that he was being groomed to serve as Abe's successor.[7][8] Suga faced scrutiny later that year due to the
resignations of Cabinet ministers Katsuyuki Kawai and Isshu Sugawara, both of whom had been close
associates of Suga and were accused of campaign financing violations.[15] Suga also remained politically
active during this time, coordinating support for the LDP candidate in the 2019 Hokkaido gubernatorial
election, a role typically reserved for top LDP officials.[8]

Suga served as a key Abe deputy during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He criticized the
structure of the Japanese bureaucracy, with deep divisions between ministries, as stalling coordination to stop
the spread of the virus.[23]
 Following Shinzo Abe's resignation announcement in August 2020,
Suga emerged as the leading contender to replace Abe on the
leadership election, having gained the support of Deputy Prime
Minister Tarō Asō and LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai, as
well as the two largest factions in the LDP and supposedly even Abe
himself.[24] Suga's main competitors in the LDP leadership race were
longtime Abe rival Shigeru Ishiba and LDP policy chief Fumio
Kishida.[25][26]

Prime Minister of Japan

Suga announcing the new imperial
era name "Reiwa" on 1 April 2019 Suga was elected to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party
on 14 September 2020, with 377 votes out of a total of 534.[27] Upon
his election, Suga outlined a policy agenda that included tackling the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and implementing further deregulation to revitalize the economy. He reiterated
his past interest in consolidating regional banks and lowering mobile phone charges in Japan.[28][29] Suga
vowed to continue the economic policies of his predecessor, known as Abenomics, and to continue the path of
Shinzo Abe in terms of foreign policy, making his "top priority" the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by
North Korea.[30][31]

Personal life
Suga is married and has three sons.[32] His wife, Mariko, is the sister of one of his former co-workers in the
office of Hikosaburo Okonogi.[33]

Suga has a daily fitness routine, which includes doing 100 situps and 40 minutes of walking each morning,
and 100 situps each night. He started this routine after a doctor advised him to lose weight, and he lost 14 kg
(31 lb) in four months.[12]

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External links
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 House of Representatives of Japan
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1996–present

Political offices
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Osamu Fujimura 2012–2020 Katsunobu Katō
Preceded by Prime Minister of Japan
Incumbent
Shinzo Abe 2020–present

Party political offices

President of the Liberal Democratic
Preceded by
Party Incumbent
Shinzo Abe
2020–present

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