List of prime ministers of Japan by home prefecture

This is a list of prime ministers of Japan by home prefecture. This is based on prefectures where each prime minister was born, and not based on prefectures primarily affiliated or most closely associated with the prime ministers due to residence, professional career, or electoral history.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

This list includes Provinces, the former administrative divisions used from the 600s to 1882.

Birthplaces

Twelve provinces and twenty-one prefectures, including 1 metropolis (Tokyo) have the distinction of being the birthplace of a prime minister.

Born on 1 April 1870, Hamaguchi Osachi was the first prime minister born after the establishment of the Empire of Japan.

Born on 21 September 1954, Shinzo Abe was the first prime minister born after the establishment of the post-war state of Japan.

The number of prime ministers per provinces and prefectures in which they were born are:

One: Akita Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Okayama Prefecture, Ōita Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Aichi Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, Tokushima Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Izumi Province, Mimasaka Province, Echizen Province, Bitchū Province, Nara Province, Tosa Province, Izumo Province, Owari Province, Higo Province, Aki Province, Musashi Province, Yamashiro Province, Hizen Province, Suō Province
Two: Yamaguchi Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Mutsu Province
Three: Satsuma Province
Four: Tokyo (Metropolis), Gunma Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Nagato Province
Eight: Tokyo (Prefecture)

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Date of birth	Prime Minister	Birthplace	Prefecture^[a] of birth	In office
16 October 1841	Itō Hirobumi	Tsukari	Suō Province	22 December 1885 – 30 April 1888 8 August 1892 – 31 August 1896 12 January – 30 June 1898 19 October 1900 – 10 May 1901
9 November 1840	Kuroda Kiyotaka	Kagoshima	Satsuma Province	30 April 1888 – 25 October 1889
14 June 1838	Yamagata Aritomo	Kawashima	Nagato Province	24 December 1889 – 6 May 1891 8 November 1898 – 19 October 1900
25 February 1835	Matsukata Masayoshi	Kagoshima	Satsuma Province	6 May 1891 – 8 August 1892 18 September 1896 – 12 January 1898
11 March 1838	Ōkuma Shigenobu	Saga	Hizen Province	June 30, – November 8, 1898 April 16, 1914 – October 9, 1916
4 January 1848	Katsura Tarō	Hagi	Nagato Province	2 June 1901 – 7 January 1906 14 July 1908 – 30 August 1911 21 December 1912 – 20 February 1913
7 December 1849	Saionji Kinmochi	Kyoto	Yamashiro Province	7 January 1906 – 14 July 1908 30 August 1911 – 21 December 1912
26 November 1852	Yamamoto Gonnohyōe	Kagoshima	Satsuma Province	20 February 1913 – 16 April 1914 2 September 1923 – 7 January 1924
5 February 1852	Terauchi Masatake	Yamaguchi	Nagato Province	9 October 1916 – 29 September 1918
15 March 1856	Hara Takashi	Motomiya	Mutsu Province	29 September 1918 – 4 November 1921
27 July 1854	Takahashi Korekiyo	Edo	Musashi Province	13 November 1921 – 12 June 1922
22 February 1861	Katō Tomosaburō	Hiroshima	Aki Province	12 June 1922 – 24 August 1923
14 February or 27 March 1850	Kiyoura Keigo	Kamoto	Higo Province	7 January – 11 June 1924
3 January 1860	Katō Takaaki	Aisai	Owari Province	11 June 1924 – 28 January 1926
21 March 1866	Wakatsuki Reijirō	Matsue	Izumo Province	28 January 1926 – 20 April 1927 14 April 1931 – 13 December 1931
22 June 1864	Tanaka Giichi	Hagi	Nagato Province	20 April 1927 – 2 July 1929
1 April 1870	Hamaguchi Osachi	Kōchi	Tosa Province	2 July 1929 – 14 November 1930 10 March – 14 April 1931
4 June 1855	Inukai Tsuyoshi	Okayama	Bitchū Province	13 December 1931 – 15 May 1932
27 October 1858	Saitō Makoto	Mizusawa	Mutsu Province	26 May 1932 – 8 July 1934
20 January 1868	Keisuke Okada	Fukui	Echizen Province	8 July 1934 – 9 March 1936
14 February 1878	Kōki Hirota	Fukuoka	Fukuoka	9 March 1936 – 2 February 1937
23 February 1876	Senjūrō Hayashi	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	2 February – 4 June 1937
12 October 1891	Fumimaro Konoe	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	4 June 1937 – 5 January 1939 22 July 1940 – 18 October 1941
28 September 1867	Hiranuma Kiichirō	Tsuyama	Mimasaka Province	5 January – 30 August 1939
24 November 1875	Nobuyuki Abe	Kanazawa	Ishikawa	30 August 1939 – 16 January 1940
2 March 1880	Mitsumasa Yonai	Mitsuwari	Iwate	16 January – 22 July 1940
30 December 1884	Hideki Tojo	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	18 October 1941 – 22 July 1944
22 March 1880	Kuniaki Koiso	Utsunomiya	Tochigi	22 July 1944 – 7 April 1945
18 January 1868	Kantarō Suzuki	Kuze	Izumi Province	7 April – 17 August 1945
3 December 1887	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Kyoto	Kyoto	17 August – 9 October 1945
13 September 1872	Kijūrō Shidehara	Sakai	Nara Province	14 November 1930 – 10 March 1931 9 October 1945 – 22 May 1946
22 September 1878	Shigeru Yoshida	Yokosuka	Kanagawa	22 May 1946 – 24 May 1947 15 October 1948 – 10 December 1954
28 July 1887	Tetsu Katayama	Fujisawa	Kanagawa	24 May 1947 – 10 March 1948
15 November 1887	Hitoshi Ashida	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	10 March 1948 – 15 October 1948
1 January 1883	Ichirō Hatoyama	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	10 December 1954 – 23 December 1956
25 September 1884	Tanzan Ishibashi	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	23 December 1956 – 31 January 1957
13 November 1896	Nobusuke Kishi	Yamaguchi	Yamaguchi	31 January 1957 – 19 July 1960
3 December 1899	Hayato Ikeda	Takehara	Hiroshima	19 July 1960 – 9 November 1964
27 March 1901	Eisaku Satō	Tabuse	Yamaguchi	9 November 1964 – 7 July 1972
4 May 1918	Kakuei Tanaka	Nishiyama	Niigata	7 July 1972 – 9 December 1974
17 March 1907	Takeo Miki	Awa	Tokushima	9 December 1974 – 24 December 1976
14 January 1905	Takeo Fukuda	Takasaki	Gunma	24 December 1976 – 7 December 1978
12 March 1910	Masayoshi Ōhira	Kan'onji	Kagawa	7 December 1978 – 12 June 1980
11 January 1911	Zenko Suzuki	Yamada	Iwate	17 July 1980 – 27 November 1982
27 May 1918	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Takasaki	Gunma	27 November 1982 – 6 November 1987
26 February 1924	Noboru Takeshita	Unnan	Shimane	6 November 1987 – 3 June 1989
27 August 1922	Sōsuke Uno	Moriyama	Shiga	3 June 1989 – 10 August 1989
2 January 1931	Toshiki Kaifu	Nagoya	Aichi	10 August 1989 – 5 November 1991
8 October 1919	Kiichi Miyazawa	Fukuyama	Hiroshima	5 November 1991 – 9 August 1993
14 January 1938	Morihiro Hosokawa	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
24 August 1935	Tsutomu Hata	Tokyo City	Tokyo Prefecture	28 April 1994 – 30 June 1994
3 March 1924	Tomiichi Murayama	Ōita	Ōita	30 July 1994 – 11 January 1996
29 July 1937	Ryutaro Hashimoto	Sōja	Okayama	11 January 1996 – 30 July 1998
25 June 1937	Keizō Obuchi	Nakanojō	Gunma	30 July 1998 – 5 April 2000
14 July 1937	Yoshirō Mori	Nomi	Ishikawa	5 April 2000 – 26 April 2001
8 January 1942	Junichiro Koizumi	Yokosuka	Kanagawa	26 April 2001 – 26 September 2006
21 September 1954	Shinzo Abe	Shinjuku	Tokyo	26 September 2006 – 26 September 2007 26 December 2012 – 16 September 2020
16 July 1936	Yasuo Fukuda	Takasaki	Gunma	26 September 2007 – 24 September 2008
20 September 1940	Tarō Asō	Iizuka	Fukuoka	24 September 2008 – 16 September 2009
11 February 1947	Yukio Hatoyama	Bunkyō	Tokyo	16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010
10 October 1946	Naoto Kan	Ube	Yamaguchi	8 June 2010 – 2 September 2011
20 May 1957	Yoshihiko Noda	Funabashi	Chiba	2 September 2011 – 26 December 2012
6 December 1948	Yoshihide Suga	Yuzawa	Akita	16 September 2020 – 4 October 2021
29 July 1957	Fumio Kishida	Shibuya	Tokyo	4 October 2021 – 1 October 2024
4 February 1957	Shigeru Ishiba	Chiyoda	Tokyo	1 October 2024 – 21 October 2025
7 March 1961	Sanae Takaichi	Yamatokōriyama	Nara	21 October 2025 – Present

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