Okada Cabinet

Okada Cabinet
31st Cabinet of Japan
Date formed	July 8, 1934
Date dissolved	March 9, 1936
People and organisations
Emperor	Shōwa
Prime Minister	Keisuke Okada
Member party	HoR Blocs:   Rikken Minseitō   Rikken Seiyūkai dissidents, later Shōwakai HoP Blocs:   Kenkyūkai   Kōseikai
Status in legislature	Majority (coalition)
Opposition party	Rikken Seiyūkai
Opposition leader	Suzuki Kisaburō
History
Election	1936 general election
Legislature terms	66th Imperial Diet 67th Imperial Diet 68th Imperial Diet
Predecessor	Saitō Cabinet
Successor	Hirota Cabinet

The Okada Cabinet (岡田内閣, Okada naikaku) is the 31st Cabinet of Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Keisuke Okada from July 8, 1934, to March 9, 1936.

Okada was appointed on July 8, 1934, after his predecessor Saitō Makoto had resigned over the Teijin Incident. Okada's appointment dashed hopes for a revival of political party influence. His cabinet was the second "national unity cabinet" (kyokoku itchi naikaku) after the Saitō Cabinet that had marked the end of the party rule of the 1920s and early 1930s, which was the so-called Taishō Democracy. Key ministers came from the bureaucracy and the military, and other posts were held by politicians mostly from the minority Minseitō and the Shōwakai, a militarist breakaway group from the majority Seiyūkai that had refused to let its members join the Okada Cabinet.

After the attempted coup d'état in the February 26 Incident in 1936, the Okada Cabinet resigned. Following Genrō Kinmochi Saionji's recommendation, the emperor appointed foreign minister Hirota Kōki as successor leading to the formation of the Hirota Cabinet, another "national unity cabinet".

• Kantei, Japanese Cabinet: Okada Cabinet (in Japanese)
• National Diet Library: Modern Japan in Archives, Crisis in Constitutional Politics