The Second Kishida Cabinet is the 101st Cabinet of Japan and was formed in November 2021 by Fumio Kishida, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Japan.

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Second Kishida Cabinet
101st Cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front row, centre) with the newly-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, 10 November 2021
Date formed	10 November 2021
Date dissolved	10 August 2022
People and organisations
Emperor	Naruhito
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Prime Minister's history	Member of the HoR for Hiroshima 1st district (1993-) Former Foreign Minister (2012-2017) Former acting Minister of Defense (2017)
No. of ministers	20 (2022-) 21 (2021-2022)
Member party	Liberal Democratic–   Komeito Coalition
Status in legislature	HoR (Lower): LDP-K Coalition majority 293 / 465 (63%) HoC (Upper): LDP-K Coalition majority 142 / 245 (58%)
Opposition party	Constitutional Democratic Party
Opposition leader	Yukio Edano (2021) Kenta Izumi (2021-present)
History
Election(s)	2021/49th HoR general election 2022/26th HoC regular election
Legislature term(s)	206th– National Diet (49th HoR, 25th– HoC)
Predecessor	First Kishida Cabinet
Successor	Second Kishida Cabinet (First Reshuffle)

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The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito and controls both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet. It is the successor to Kishida's previous cabinet.

After Fumio Kishida called for a general election and won a supermajority on 31 October 2021, he was re-elected as the prime minister at a special session of the National Diet on 10 November 2021. As his first cabinet only served 37 days, the shortest term in history, Kishida reappointed nearly all of the ministers from the previous cabinet following re-election.^[1][2]

On 10 August 2022, the cabinet was reshuffled. 7 MPs with ties to the Unification Church (UC) were dismissed following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and increasing media scrutiny of LDP officials' close ties with the church.^[3][4] On 20 August it was reported that 23 officials including 8 MPs in the new reshuffled cabinet have existing connections to the UC.^[5][6][7]

• Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi was replaced by Yoshimasa Hayashi, after being chosen as the new LDP Secretary-General due to the resignation of Akira Amari.^[9]