List of speakers of the House of Representatives (Japan)

List of speakers (gichō) and vice-speakers (fuku-gichō) of the House of Representatives.

Speakers

The official residence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Shūgiin gichō kōtei) in Nagatachō, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo is mainly used for receptions of state guests and other official occasions. The residence of the vice-speaker is located in Akasaka in Minato ward, Tokyo.

#	Name	Party	Entered office	Left office (+reason if not end of term)
Empire of Japan
1	Nobuyuki Nakajima	Rikken Jiyūtō	November 26, 1890	December 25, 1891 (dissolution)
2	Tōru Hoshi	Jiyūtō	May 3, 1892	December 13, 1893 (expulsion)
3	Masataka Kusumoto	Dōmei Club	December 15, 1893	December 30, 1893 (dissolution)
4	Masataka Kusumoto	Rikken Kakushintō	May 12, 1894	June 2, 1894 (dissolution)
5	Masataka Kusumoto	Rikken Kakushintō	October 15, 1894	June 8, 1896 (resignation)
6	Kazuo Hatoyama	Shinpotō	December 22, 1896	December 25, 1897 (dissolution)
7	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	May 15, 1898	June 10, 1898 (dissolution)
8	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	November 9, 1898	December 7, 1902
9	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 7, 1902	December 28, 1902 (dissolution)
10	Kenkichi Kataoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	May 9, 1903	October 31, 1903 (death)
11	Hironaka Kōno	Kenseitō	December 5, 1903	December 11, 1903 (dissolution)
12	Masahisa Matsuda	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 18, 1904	January 19, 1906 (resignation)
13	Teiichi Sugita	Rikken Seiyūkai	January 23, 1906	December 23, 1908
14	Sumitaka Haseba	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 23, 1908	September 6, 1911 (resignation)
15	Ikuzō Ōoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 24, 1911	August 21, 1912
16	Ikuzō Ōoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	August 21, 1912	March 6, 1914 (resignation)
17	Sumitaka Haseba	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 7, 1914	March 15, 1914 (death)
18	Shigesaburō Oku	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 17, 1914	December 25, 1914 (dissolution)
19	Saburō Shimada	Rikken Dōshikai	May 17, 1915	January 25, 1917 (dissolution)
20	Ikuzō Ōoka	Rikken Seiyūkai	June 21, 1917	February 26, 1920 (dissolution)
21	Shigesaburō Oku	Rikken Seiyūkai	June 26, 1920	February 16, 1923 (resignation)
22	Gizō Kasuya	Rikken Seiyūkai	February 17, 1923	January 31, 1924 (dissolution)
23	Gizō Kasuya	Rikken Seiyūkai → Ind.	June 26, 1924	March 25, 1927 (resignation)
24	Shigeru Morita	Kenseikai	March 26, 1927	January 21, 1928 (dissolution)
25	Hajime Motoda	Rikken Seiyūkai	April 20, 1928	March 14, 1929 (resignation)
26	Mosuke Kawahara	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 15, 1929	May 15, 1929 (death)
27	Zenbē Horikiri	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 26, 1929	January 21, 1930 (dissolution)
28	Ikunosuke Fujisawa	Rikken Minseitō	April 23, 1930	April 13, 1931 (resignation)
29	Kejirō Nakamura	Rikken Minseitō	December 26, 1931	January 21, 1932 (dissolution)
30	Kiyoshi Akita	Rikken Seiyūkai	March 18, 1932	December 13, 1932 (resignation)
31	Kunimatsu Hamada	Rikken Seiyūkai	December 24, 1934	January 21, 1936 (dissolution)
32	Kōjirō Tomita	Rikken Minseitō	May 1, 1936	March 31, 1937 (dissolution)
33	Shōju Koyama	Rikken Minseitō → Yokusan Giin Dōmei	July 23, 1937	December 22, 1941 (resignation)
34	Kazutami Tago	Yokusan Giin Dōmei → Yokusan Seijikai	December 24, 1941	May 25, 1942
35	Tadahiko Okada	Yokusan Seijikai	May 25, 1942	April 9, 1945 (resignation)
36	Toshio Shimada	Dainihon Seijikai → JPP	June 8, 1945	December 18, 1945 (dissolution)
37	Senzō Higai	JLP	May 22, 1946	August 23, 1946 (resignation)
38	Takeshi Yamazaki	JLP → Ind.	August 23, 1946	March 31, 1947 (dissolution)
State of Japan
39	Komakichi Matsuoka	JSP → JSP (right wing)	May 21, 1947	December 23, 1948 (dissolution)
40	Kijūrō Shidehara	LP	February 11, 1949	March 10, 1951 (death)
41	Jōji Hayashi	LP	March 13, 1951	August 1, 1952 (resignation)
42	Banboku Ōno	LP	August 26, 1952	August 28, 1952 (dissolution)
43	Banboku Ōno	LP	October 24, 1952	March 14, 1953 (dissolution)
44	Yasujirō Tsutsumi	PP	May 18, 1953	December 10, 1954 (resignation)
45	Tō Matsunaga	JDP	December 11, 1954	January 24, 1955 (dissolution)
46	Shūji Masutani	LDP	March 18, 1955	April 25, 1958 (dissolution)
47	Nirō Hoshijima	LDP	June 11, 1958	December 13, 1958 (resignation)
48	Ryōgorō Katō	LDP	December 13, 1958	February 1, 1960 (resignation)
49	Ichirō Kiyose	LDP	February 1, 1960	October 24, 1960 (dissolution)
50	Ichirō Kiyose	LDP	December 7, 1960	October 23, 1963 (dissolution)
51	Naka Funada	LDP	December 7, 1963	December 20, 1965 (resignation)
52	Kikuichirō Yamaguchi	LDP	December 20, 1965	December 3, 1966 (resignation)
53	Kentarō Ayabe	LDP	December 3, 1966	December 27, 1966 (dissolution)
54	Mitsujirō Ishii	LDP	February 15, 1967	July 16, 1969 (resignation)
55	Takechiyo Matsuda	LDP	December 3, 1969	December 27, 1969 (dissolution)
56	Naka Funada	LDP	January 14, 1970	November 13, 1972 (dissolution)
57	Umekichi Nakamura	LDP	December 22, 1972	May 29, 1973 (resignation)
58	Shigesaburō Maeo	LDP	May 29, 1973	December 9, 1976
59	Shigeru Hori	LDP	December 24, 1976	February 1, 1979 (resignation)
60	Hirokichi Nadao	LDP	February 1, 1979	September 7, 1979 (dissolution)
61	Hirokichi Nadao	LDP	October 30, 1979	May 19, 1980 (dissolution)
62	Hajime Fukuda	LDP	July 17, 1980	November 28, 1983 (dissolution)
63	Kenji Fukunaga	LDP	December 26, 1983	January 24, 1985 (resignation)
64	Michita Sakata	LDP	January 24, 1985	June 2, 1986 (dissolution)
65	Kenzaburō Hara	LDP	July 22, 1986	June 2, 1989 (resignation)
66	Hajime Tamura	LDP	June 2, 1989	January 24, 1990 (dissolution)
67	Yoshio Sakurauchi	LDP	February 27, 1990	June 18, 1993 (dissolution)
68	Takako Doi	JSP	August 6, 1993	September 27, 1996 (dissolution)
69	Sōichirō Itō	LDP	November 7, 1996	June 2, 2000 (dissolution)
70	Tamisuke Watanuki	LDP	July 4, 2000	October 10, 2003 (dissolution)
71	Yōhei Kōno	LDP	November 19, 2003	August 8, 2005 (dissolution)
72	Yōhei Kōno	LDP	September 21, 2005	July 21, 2009 (dissolution)
73	Takahiro Yokomichi	DPJ	September 16, 2009	November 16, 2012 (dissolution)
74	Bunmei Ibuki	LDP	December 26, 2012	November 21, 2014 (dissolution)
75	Nobutaka Machimura	LDP	December 24, 2014	April 21, 2015 (resignation)
76	Tadamori Oshima	LDP	April 21, 2015	November 1, 2021
77	Hiroyuki Hosoda	LDP	November 1, 2021	Incumbent

Other websites

• House of Representatives: 衆議院議長・副議長一覧 (in Japanese)
• Rulers.org