First Mori cabinet

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.^[1][2][3]

Date establishedApril 5, 2000

Date dissolvedJuly 4, 2000

Head of state

Emperor Akihito

Head of government

Yoshirō Mori

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First Mori cabinet
85th Cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori (front row, centre) with the newly-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, April 5, 2000
Date established	April 5, 2000
Date dissolved	July 4, 2000
Leadership and composition
Head of state	Emperor Akihito
Head of government	Yoshirō Mori
Member party	LDP-NKP-NCP coalition
Status in legislature	Majority coalition
Opposition party	Democratic Party of Japan
Opposition leader	Yukio Hatoyama
Formation and history
Predecessor	Obuchi (Second reshuffle)
Successor	Mori II

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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.^[4][5] 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.^[6] Therefore, the cabinet was dissolved in July when Mori was re-elected by the National Diet and replaced with the Second Mori Cabinet.