Abstract: The Kenseito Cabinet is the beginning of an important stage in the political history of modern Japan, which marked the end of the long termgovernmental model of Satsuma and Choshu Hanbatsu’spresidency rotation. As the first party cabinet of modern Japan, hunting office holder, having internal strife and compromising to Hanbatsuo ccurred during Kenseito cabinet period. The Kenseito cabinet was set up on recommendation of the elder statesman Itō Hirobumi who was are presentative of enlightened force in Hanbatsu. The other elder statesmen leaded by Yamagata Aritomo had to agree with Kenseito to form a cabinet on the surface, because it was difficult for Hanbatsu govement to control the regime. Therefore, the Kenseito cabinet was constrained by elder statesman, bureaucrats, Kizokuyin and Gunbu, among which Yamagata Aritomo was a representative man. There were internal disputes in Kenseito, all of which leaded to division of the Kensei to and collapse of Kenseito cabinet.

Key words: Kenseito, Kenseito cabinet, Hanbatsu