Fourth Abe Cabinet

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Fourth Abe Cabinet
98th Cabinet of Japan
Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (front row, centre) with the re-elected cabinet inside the Kantei, November 1, 2017
Date formed	November 1, 2017
Date dissolved	September 16, 2020
People and organisations
Head of state	Emperor Akihito (2017–2019) Emperor Naruhito (2019–2020)
Head of government	Shinzō Abe
Deputy head of government	Tarō Asō
Member party	Liberal Democratic–Komeito Coalition
Status in legislature	HoR: LDP-K Coalition supermajority HoC: LDP-K Coalition majority
Opposition party	Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
Opposition leader	Yukio Edano
History
Elections	2017 general election 2019 councillors election
Predecessor	Third Abe Cabinet
Successor	Suga Cabinet

The Fourth Abe Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from November 2017 to September 2020. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito (which had changed its name from "New Komeito" in the 2012–2014 term) and controls both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.

Following his resignation, the Fourth Abe cabinet was dissolved on September 16, 2020, and replaced with the Suga cabinet.

According to research by Nikkan Gendai, 10 out of 20 members in the Fourth Abe Cabinet had connections to the Unification Church.^[1] These connections were largely not reported by Japanese media at the time.^[2]