The First Mori cabinet briefly governed Japan between April and July 2000, after the sudden incapacitation of Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi and his replacement by Yoshirō Mori, who had been LDP Secretary General. Mori called his government "the Japan revival cabinet", but made no personnel changes when he took office, pledging to retain Obuchi's ministers, maintain the 3-party coalition and continue his policies to try to revive the economy.
Mori proved an unpopular Prime Minister due to a series of gaffes and the manner of his coming to power, and called early general elections for June 2000 to pre-empt a continuing decline in the LDP's poll numbers. In the elections, the LDP lost the majority that it had built up through opposition defections since 1996, but the coalition held enough seats to retain government. Therefore, the cabinet was dissolved in July when Mori was re-elected by the National Diet and replaced with the Second Mori Cabinet.
Election of the prime minister + 5 April 2000 House of Representatives Absolute majority (251/500) required Choice First Vote Votes Yoshirō Mori Yukio Hatoyama Others and Abstentions (Including blank ballots) Source Diet Minutes - 147th Session
List of ministers
R = Member of the House of Representatives C = Member of the House of Councillors
Cabinet + First Mori Cabinet from April 5, 2000 to July 4, 2000 Portfolio Minister Term of Office Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori R April 5, 2000 - April 26, 2001 Minister of Justice Hideo Usui R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Foreign Affairs Yōhei Kōno R October 5, 1999 - April 26, 2001 Minister of Finance Kiichi Miyazawa R July 30, 1998 - April 26, 2001 Minister of Education Director of the Science and Technology Agency Hirofumi Nakasone C October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Health and Welfare Yuya Niwa R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tokuichiro Tamazawa R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of International Trade and Industry Takashi Fukaya R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Transport Director of the Hokkaido Development Agency Toshihiro Nikai R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Eita Yashiro R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Labour Takamori Makino R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Construction Director of the National Land Agency Masaaki Nakayama R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Minister of Home Affairs Director of the National Public Safety Commission Kosuke Hori R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Chief Cabinet Secretary Director of the Okinawa Development Agency Mikio Aoki C October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Chairman of the Financial Reconstruction Commission Sadakazu Tanigaki R February 25, 2000 - July 4, 2000 Director of the Management and Coordination Agency Kunihiro Tsuzuki C October 5, 1999 - December 5, 2000 Director of the Japan Defense Agency Tsutomu Kawara R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Director of the Economic Planning Agency Taichi Sakaiya - July 30, 1998 - December 5, 2000 Director of the Environment Agency Kayoko Shimizu C October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000Deputy Secretaries Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs - House of Representatives) Fukushiro Nukaga R October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political Affairs - House of Councillors) Soichiro Matsutani C October 5, 1999 - July 4, 2000 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Bureaucrat) Teijiro Furukawa - February 24, 1995 - September 22, 2003
References
External links Pages at the Kantei (English website): Mori Administration List of Ministers