Yoshihiko Noda
Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
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| 2024 | Noda won the CDP's party presidential election, defeating incumbent leader Kenta Izumi and former leader Yukio Edano. |
| November 11 2024 | On 11 November 2024, Yoshihiko Noda lost a bid to become prime minister to the LDP's Shigeru Ishiba during an extraordinary session of the Diet. |
| October 27 2024 | Under the leadership of Yoshihiko Noda, the Constitutional Democratic Party made strong gains in the Japanese general election held on 27 October 2024, resulting in the ruling LDP-Komeito coalition being reduced to a minority government. |
| September 30 2024 | On 30 September 2024, after becoming the president of the Constitutional Democratic Party, Yoshihiko Noda appointed his Next Cabinet, including Akira Nagatsuma, Kiyomi Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Ogushi as deputies, Junya Ogawa as secretary general, and Kazuhiko Shigetoku as chairman of the Policy Research Council. |
| September 23 2024 | Yoshihiko Noda won the Constitutional Democratic Party presidential election on 23 September 2024, defeating Yukio Edano in a runoff. |
| August 2024 | In late August 2024, Yoshihiko Noda announced his intention to run in the Constitutional Democratic Party presidential election. |
| October 25 2022 | On 25 October 2022, Yoshihiko Noda delivered a funeral oration for Shinzo Abe during a plenary session of the House of Representatives. |
| July 8 2022 | Following the assassination of Shinzo Abe on 8 July 2022, Yoshihiko Noda attended Abe's state funeral held on 27 September 2022 at Nippon Budokan. |
| 2021 | Noda joined the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), the primary successor to the DPJ. |
| July 2017 | Yoshihiko Noda and Renhō both resigned from their posts after the Democratic Party suffered disastrous results in the July 2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly elections. |
| September 2016 | In September 2016, a protégé of Yoshihiko Noda, Renhō, was elected president of the Democratic Party, while Noda took on the role of secretary-general. |
| March 2016 | In March 2016, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Japan Innovation Party merged to form the new Democratic Party (Minshintō), with Yoshihiko Noda being appointed as secretary-general. |
| May 11 2013 | Yoshihiko Noda attended Kenta Kobashi's retirement event, Final Burning in Budokan, held in Tokyo's Nippon Budokan. |
| December 26 2012 | Shinzo Abe succeeded Noda as Prime Minister of Japan, following Noda's resignation. |
| December 16 2012 | In the general election, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Shinzo Abe, won a decisive victory, leading to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) losing around three-fourths of its seats, prompting Noda to announce his resignation as president of the DPJ. |
| November 14 2012 | Noda announced that the Japanese diet would be dissolved on 16 November 2012, setting the date for the general election on 16 December 2012. |
| September 21 2012 | Yoshihiko Noda won the DPJ's leadership bi-annual election with 818 points out of 1,231, promising to strengthen teamwork within the DPJ and focus on decisive politics for Japan's reforms. |
| September 11 2012 | The Japanese government, under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, nationalized its control over the Senkaku Islands by purchasing Minami-kojima, Kita-kojima, and Uotsuri islands from the Kurihara family for ¥2.05 billion. |
| August 24 2012 | Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda appeared on live television, vowing to appeal to the international community for support regarding Japan's claims to sovereignty over the disputed islands with South Korea and China. |
| August 10 2012 | The consumption tax increase bill passed the upper house of the diet, completing the legislative process for the tax hike that Noda had made a central part of his agenda. |
| August 10 2012 | Yoshihiko Noda survived a no-confidence vote, which was significant as it followed his proposal for a five-percent increase in the sales tax amidst intense opposition. |
| June 26 2012 | The bill to increase Japan's consumption tax from 5% to 10% passed through the lower house of the diet, a crucial step in Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's efforts to reform tax policy. |
| May 2012 | Nuclear power plants in Japan that had been idle following the Fukushima accident were restarted to address the country's immediate energy demands, despite facing significant protests. |
| April 27 2012 | The Tokyo Metropolitan Government began raising funds from the public to purchase the Senkaku Islands, with the move viewed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as likely to exacerbate tensions with China. |
| 2011 | During the party caucus for the leadership decision, Noda delivered a popular 'loach speech,' comparing his political journey to that of a dojo loach, which solidified his political reputation at the beginning of his term. |
| November 11 2011 | Yoshihiko Noda announced Japan's entry into the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a significant initiative during his premiership. |
| September 2 2011 | Yoshihiko Noda delivered his first speech as Prime Minister, where he confirmed that the Japanese government would continue to phase out nuclear power by not constructing new nuclear power plants or extending the life spans of outdated ones. |
| September 2 2011 | Noda won the leadership election following Naoto Kan's resignation and was appointed Prime Minister of Japan. |
| August 2011 | After the resignation of Naoto Kan, Yoshihiko Noda stood as a candidate in the party election to replace him and won a runoff vote against Banri Kaieda, making him the presumptive prime minister. |
| August 2011 | In a speech focused on foreign policy, Noda emphasized the importance of the US-Japan security alliance, highlighting his administration's close relations with the United States. |
| August 15 2011 | On the anniversary of the Surrender of Japan in World War II, Noda stated that he did not view Japan's class A war criminals, convicted by the Allies, as legally war criminals, maintaining the stance of previous administrations. |
| January 2011 | For the first time in six years, the finance ministry intervened in the foreign exchange market under Noda's leadership, spending 2.13 trillion yen to purchase dollars to stabilize the yen's value. |
| June 2010 | He was appointed as Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Naoto Kan. |
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