Satsuki Katayama
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Satsuki Katayama | |
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片山 さつき | |
 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Minister of Finance | |
| Assumed office 21 October 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Sanae Takaichi |
| Preceded by | Katsunobu Katō |
| Minister for Regional Revitalization Minister for Gender Equality | |
| In office 2 October 2018 – 11 September 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzo Abe |
| Preceded by | Hiroshi Kajiyama (Regional Revitalization) Seiko Noda (Gender Equality) |
| Succeeded by | Seigo Kitamura (Regional Revitalization) Seiko Hashimoto (Gender Equality) |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2010 | |
| Constituency | National PR |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 13 September 2005 – 21 July 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Minoru Kiuchi |
| Succeeded by | Minoru Kiuchi |
| Constituency | Shizuoka 7th |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Satsuki Tomonaga 9 May 1959 |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
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| Parent | Yasuo Tomonaga (father) |
| Relatives | Tsunao Ginrin (great-grandfather) Yutaka Katayama (father-in-law) |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo École nationale d'administration |
Satsuki Katayama (born Tomonaga; 9 May 1959) is a Japanese politician serving in Japan's House of Councillors, having been elected in July 2010 as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). She previously represented the Shizuoka 7th district in the House of Representatives for one term from 2005 until 2009.[1] She has served as the first woman Minister of Finance since 21 October 2025 in the first and second Takaichi cabinet.
Katayama was born in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture (later Urawa-ku, Saitama). She studied law at the University of Tokyo, where she was chosen Miss Tokyo University (Miss Tōdai).[2]
After graduation in 1982, Katayama joined the Ministry of Finance. During her time at the Ministry, Satsuki Katayama attended and graduated from École nationale d'administration in France. She served in the ministry for more than twenty years and was the first woman to become a budget examiner in the Budget Bureau.[3]
Political career
She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the 2005 general election and served as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.[4] She was one of 83 so-called "Koizumi Children," LDP candidates elected for the first time amid the widespread popularity of reformist prime minister Junichiro Koizumi; Koizumi touted Katayama as a "madonna of reform."[5]
Katayama and 72 other "Koizumi Children" were defeated in the 2009 general election, in which the Democratic Party of Japan routed the LDP. Following the 2009 election, Katayama commented that "the past four years have been a fight against the symbols of Koizumi's reforms, and we have proved they were wrong."[5] She later characterized herself as a "war-displaced orphan" in 2011.[6]
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On 1 May 2019, she attended the presentation of the Three Sacred Treasures to Emperor Naruhito. In the last such ceremony in 1989, only males were allowed to be in attendance; however in 2019 all cabinet members were allowed to attend regardless of sex, although only male adults from the imperial family could attend.[7] In October 2025, Katayama was selected as Japan’s first female Minister of Finance,[8] in the new Sanae Takaichi administration.[9]
Katayama, like many of her LDP colleagues, is affiliated with the ultra-conservative Nippon Kaigi.
