Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Yukihiko Imasaki Kazuo Ueda
Next Cabinets have since been formed by presidents of the DPJ's 2016 successor and the Constitutional Democratic Party.
The first Next Cabinet was formed on 1 October 1999 by Yukio Hatoyama, an admirer of the Westminster system, on the model of the shadow cabinets of Anglo-Saxon countries.
The transcription of Next Cabinet in Japanese was originally only in Katakana as the Nekusuto Kyabinetto (ネクストキャビネット), until it was transcribed into its current form during the party presidency of Naoto Kan.[1] No Next Cabinet was formed after Kohei Otsuka succeeded Seiji Maehara as president of the Democratic Party, leaving it unused from 2017 to 2022.
[2] The Next Cabinet would be brought back by the Constitutional Democratic Party in 2022 under then-party president Kenta Izumi, in anticipation of the next general election.