Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party


The secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party is a high-ranking position within the Japanese conservative party, the Liberal Democratic Party. According to the LDP constitution, the secretary-general assists the party president in their duties.
As the LDP vice president is a largely ceremonial position, the secretary-general is de facto the second-most-powerful person in the party. The secretary-general is authorized to raise political donations and controls the party finances. The secretary-general holds the final authority over the list of LDP-backed candidates for the National Diet elections. The secretary-general oversees the LDP Diet Affairs Committee, responsible for steering party-supported bills through both chambers of the Diet, and appoints its chairman. The secretary-general also oversees key LDP organizations such as the personnel, treasury, information research and international bureaus.
The secretary-general is appointed by the president after the formal approval of the LDP General Council. The secretary-general is assisted by up to 30 deputy secretaries-general, appointed by the secretary-general with the approval of the General Council, one of whom is appointed as the acting secretary-general. The current secretary-general is Shun'ichi Suzuki, appointed on 7 October 2025.

List of officeholders

No.President
PortraitConstituency or titleTook officeLeft officePresident
1Nobusuke Kishi
Rep for
Yamaguchi 1st		November 1955December 1956Ichirō Hatoyama
2Takeo Miki
Rep for
Tokushima At-large		December 1956July 1957Tanzan Ishibashi
2Takeo Miki
Rep for
Tokushima At-large		December 1956July 1957Nobusuke Kishi
3Shojiro Kawashima
Rep for
Chiba 1st		July 1957January 1959Nobusuke Kishi
4Takeo Fukuda
Rep for
Gunma 3rd		January 1959June 1959Nobusuke Kishi
5Shojiro Kawashima
Rep for
Chiba 1st		June 1959July 1960Nobusuke Kishi
5Shūji Masutani
Rep for
Ishikawa 2nd		July 1960July 1961Hayato Ikeda
6Shigesaburō Maeo
Rep for
Kyoto 2nd		July 1961July 1964Hayato Ikeda
7Takeo Miki
Rep for
Tokushima At-large		July 1964June 1965Hayato Ikeda
7Takeo Miki
Rep for
Tokushima At-large		July 1964June 1965Eisaku Satō
8Kakuei Tanaka
Rep for
Niigata 3rd		June 1965December 1966Eisaku Satō
9Takeo Fukuda
Rep for
Gunma 3rd		December 1966November 1968Eisaku Satō
10Kakuei Tanaka
Rep for
Niigata 3rd		November 1968June 1971Eisaku Satō
11Shigeru Hori
Rep for
Saga At-large		June 1971July 1972Eisaku Satō
12Tomisaburo Hashimoto
Rep for
Ibaraki 1st		July 1972November 1974Kakuei Tanaka
13Susumu Nikaidō
Rep for
Kagoshima 3rd		November 1974December 1974Kakuei Tanaka
14Yasuhiro Nakasone
Rep for
Gunma 3rd		December 1974September 1976Takeo Miki
15Tsuneo Uchida
Rep for
Yamanashi At-large		September 1976December 1976Takeo Miki
16Masayoshi Ōhira
Rep for Kagawa 2ndDecember 1976December 1978Takeo Fukuda
17Kunikichi Saito
Rep for
Fukushima 3rd		December 1978November 1979Masayoshi Ōhira
18Yoshio Sakurauchi
Rep for
Shimane At-Large		November 1979November 1981Masayoshi Ōhira
18Yoshio Sakurauchi
Rep for
Shimane At-Large		November 1979November 1981Zenkō Suzuki
19Susumu Nikaidō
Rep for
Kagoshima 3rd		November 1981December 1983Zenkō Suzuki
19Susumu Nikaidō
Rep for
Kagoshima 3rd		November 1981December 1983Yasuhiro Nakasone
20Rokusuke Tanaka
Rep for
Fukuoka 4th		December 1983October 1984Yasuhiro Nakasone
21Shin Kanemaru
Rep for
Yamanashi At-large		October 1984July 1986Yasuhiro Nakasone
22Noboru Takeshita
Rep for
Shimane At-large		July 1986October 1987Yasuhiro Nakasone
23Shintaro Abe
Rep for
Yamaguchi 1st		October 1987June 1989Noboru Takeshita
24Ryutaro Hashimoto
Rep for
Okayama 4th		June 1989August 1989Sōsuke Uno
25Ichirō Ozawa
Rep for
Iwate 2nd		August 1989April 1991Toshiki Kaifu
26Keizō Obuchi
Rep for
Gunma 5th		April 1991October 1991Toshiki Kaifu
27Tamisuke Watanuki
Rep for
Toyama 2nd		October 1991December 1992Kiichi Miyazawa
28Seiroku Kajiyama
Rep for
Ibaraki 2nd		December 1992July 1993Kiichi Miyazawa
29Yoshirō Mori
Rep for
Ishikawa 2nd		July 1993August 1995Yōhei Kōno
30Hiroshi Mitsuzuka
Rep for
Miyagi 3rd		August 1995October 1995Yōhei Kōno
31Koichi Kato
Rep for
Yamagata 3rd		October 1995July 1998Ryutaro Hashimoto
32Yoshirō Mori
Rep for
Ishikawa 2nd		July 1998April 2000Keizō Obuchi
33Hiromu Nonaka
Rep for
Kyoto 4th		April 2000December 2000Yoshirō Mori
34Makoto Koga
Rep for
Fukuoka 7th		December 2000April 2001Yoshirō Mori
35Taku Yamasaki
Rep for
Fukuoka 2nd		April 2001September 2003Junichiro Koizumi
36Shinzo Abe
Rep for
Yamaguchi 4th		22 September 200324 September 2004Junichiro Koizumi
37Tsutomu Takebe
Rep for
Hokkaido 12th		September 2004September 2006Junichiro Koizumi
38Hidenao Nakagawa
Rep for
Hiroshima 4th		September 2006August 2007Shinzo Abe
39Tarō Asō
Rep for
Fukuoka 8th		August 2007September 2007Shinzo Abe
40Bunmei Ibuki
Rep for
Kyoto 1st		September 2007August 2008Yasuo Fukuda
41Tarō Asō
Rep for
Fukuoka 8th		August 2008September 2008Yasuo Fukuda
42Hiroyuki Hosoda
Rep for
Shimane 1st		22 September 200829 September 2009Tarō Asō
43Tadamori Ōshima
Rep for
Aomori 3rd		September 2009September 2010Sadakazu Tanigaki
44Nobuteru Ishihara
Rep for
Tokyo 8th		September 2010September 2012Sadakazu Tanigaki
45Shigeru Ishiba
Rep for
Tottori 1st		26 September 20123 September 2014Shinzo Abe
46Sadakazu Tanigaki
Rep for
Kyoto 5th		3 September 20143 August 2016Shinzo Abe
47Toshihiro Nikai
Rep for
Wakayama 3rd		4 August 20161 October 2021Shinzo Abe
47Toshihiro Nikai
Rep for
Wakayama 3rd		4 August 20161 October 2021Yoshihide Suga
48Akira Amari
Rep for
Kanagawa 13th		1 October 20214 November 2021Fumio Kishida
49Toshimitsu Motegi
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Tochigi 5th		4 November 202130 September 2024Fumio Kishida
50Hiroshi Moriyama
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Kagoshima 4th		30 September 20247 October 2025Shigeru Ishiba
51Shun'ichi Suzuki
Rep for
Iwate 2nd		7 October 2025IncumbentSanae Takaichi