Third Abe Cabinet

Third Abe Cabinet
97th cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (front row, centre) with the re-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, December 24, 2014
Date formed	December 24, 2014
Date dissolved	Incumbent
People and organisations
Head of government	Shinzō Abe
Deputy head of government	Tarō Asō
Head of state	Emperor Akihito
Member party	Liberal Democratic–Komeito Coalition
Status in legislature	HoR: LDP Majority (Coalition supermajority) HoC: Coalition majority
Opposition party	Democratic Party of Japan (2014 - 2016) Democratic Party (2016 - Present)
Opposition leader	Katsuya Okada (2014 - 2016) Renhō (2016 - Present)
History
Election(s)	2014 general election 2016 councillors election
Predecessor	Second Abe Cabinet
Successor	Incumbent

The Third Abe Cabinet was formed in December 2014 by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and is the current government of Japan. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito (which had changed its name from "New Komeito" in the 2012–2014 term) and controls both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.

Following the snap "Abenomics Dissolution" and general election of 2014, Abe was re-elected by the Diet and chose to retain all the ministers from his previous cabinet bar Defense Minister Akinori Eto, who had been involved in a money scandal. Abe explained that he aimed to avoid the disruption of another major personnel change only three months after the September cabinet reshuffle.

Abe has conducted two reshuffles of his third administration, the first took place in October 2015 following his re-election to another three-year term as President of the LDP and the launch of his "Abenomics 2.0" policies. The second reshuffle occurred in August 2016, following the victory of the ruling coalition in the July 2016 upper house elections, the first time since 1989 that the LDP has held an outright majority in the House of Councillors.

  Liberal Democratic
  Komeito
R = Member of the House of Representatives
C = Member of the House of Councillors