List of Prime Ministers in Japan

Historical list of individuals. Multiple terms in office, consecutive or otherwise, are listed but not counted. e.g. While Koizumi Junichiro is the listed as the 56th individual to hold this position, his administration is the 87th since Ito Hirobumi.

• Ito Hirobumi (1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901)
  
• Kuroda Kiyotaka (1888-1889)
  
• Yamagata Aritomo (1889-1891, 1898-1900)
  
• Matsukata Masayoshi (1891-1892, 1896-1898)
  
• Okuma Shigenobu (1898, 1914-1916)
  
• Katsura Taro (1901-1906, 1908-1911, 1912-1913)
  
• Saionji Kimmochi (1906-1908, 1911-1912)
  
• Yamamoto Gonnohyoe (1913-1914, 1923-1924)
  
• Terauchi Masatake (1916-1918)
  
• Hara Takashi (1918-1921)
  
• Takahashi Korekiyo (1921-1922)
  
• Kato Tomosaburo (1922-1923)
  
• Kiyoura Keigo (1924)
  
• Kato Takaaki (1924-1926)
  
• Wakatsuki Reijiro (1926-1927, 1931)
  
• Tanaka Giichi (1927-1929)
  
• Hamaguchi Osachi (1929-1931)
  
• Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931-1932)
  
• Saito Makoto (1932-1934)
  
• Okada Keisuke (1934-1936)
  
• Hirota Koki (1936-1937)
  
• Hayashi Senjuro (1937)
  
• Konoe Fumimaro (1937-1939, 1940-1941)
  
• Hiranuma Kiichiro (1939)
  
• Abe Nobuyuki (1939-1940)
  
• Yonai Mitsumasa (1940)
  
• Tojo Hideki (1941-1944)
  
• Koiso Kuniaki (1944-1945)
  
• Suzuki Kantaro (1945)
  
• Higashikuni Naruhiko (1945)
  
• Shidehara Kijuro (1945-1946)
  
• Yoshida Shigeru (1946-1947, 1948-1954)
  
• Katayama Tetsu (1947-1948)
  
• Ashida Hitoshi (1948)
  
• Hatoyama Ichiro (1954-1956)
  
• Ishibashi Tanzan (1956-1957)
  
• Kishi Nobusuke (1957-1960)
  
• Ikeda Hayato (1960-1964)
  
• Sato Eisaku (1964-1972)
  
• Tanaka Kakuei (1972-1974)
  
• Miki Takeo (1974-1976)
  
• Fukuda Takeo (1976-1978)
  
• Ohira Masayoshi (1978-1980)
  
• Suzuki Zenko (1980-1982)
  
• Nakasone Yasuhiro (1982-1987)
  
• Takeshita Noboru (1987-1989)
  
• Uno Sosuke (1987-1989)
  
• Kaifu Toshiki (1989 - 1991)
  
• Miyazawa Kiichi (1991-1993)
  
• Hosokawa Morihiro (1993-1994)
  
• Hata Tsutomu (1994-1994)
  
• Murayama Tomiichi (1994-1996)
  
• Hashimoto Ryutaro (1996-1998)
  
• Obuchi Keizo (1998-2000)
  
• Mori Yoshiro (2000-2001)
  
• Koizumi Junichiro (2001-?)
  

• Abe Shintaro
• Arai Hakuseki
• Doi Takako
• Enomoto Takeaki
• Fukuda Yasuo (current Head of LDP Cabinet)
• Fujio Masayuki
• Ishihara Shintaro
• Kajima Seiroku
• Kan Naoto
• Kanemaru Shin
• Kuranari Tadashi
• Michio Watanabe
• Ozawa Ichiro
• Shiokawa Masajuro
• Takenaka Heizo
• Takemaru Masayoshi
• Tanaka Makiko
• Tsurunen Marutei