Has Japan’s newly elected PM Sanae Takaichi created Ministry of Mass Deportations? Fact Check
Claim: Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi created a Ministry of Mass Deportations.
Conclusion: The claim is false. While Sanae Takaichi has promised to crack down on illegal immigrants, no official announcements or evidence support creation of Ministry for “mass deportations” as claimed.
Rating: Totally False — 
Several social media users have claimed that Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has created a Ministry of Mass Deportations. Verified X user ‘Basil_TGMD’ made such a claim with a part of the caption : “Sanae Takaichi was sworn in and IMMEDIATELY created a ministry for mass deportations” The post gained around 274,000 likes and over 9.1 million views. View this post below:
🚨🇯🇵NEW PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN MAKES MASS DEPORTATIONS FIRST POLICY
Sanae Takaichi was sworn in and IMMEDIATELY created a ministry for mass deportations
How can you not be jealous?
Imagine a country defending its own people pic.twitter.com/Yrescqv0SO
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) October 21, 2025
Other users have also made similar claims which can be viewed here and here.
FACT CHECK
DigitEYE India decided to investigate this claim and found that it is false. The clip being shared along with the claim is of cabinet minister Kimi Onoda, not Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Moreover, there is no credible reports or evidence either from the Japanese Government or media outlets that supports PM Takaichi creating a “Ministry of Mass Deportations”.
We first conducted a web search with the phrase ‘PM Sanae Takaichi launches new ministry of mass deportations’ to learn about the claim. However, we did not find any credible source to support this claim. All the posts shared in social media regarding this also do not offer any substantial evidence.
After performing a reverse image search of various keyframes of the clip shared in the claim, we learned that the person in the video is cabinet minister Kimi Onoda. According to a report published by Japan Today, PM Takaichi created a new cabinet portfolio for promoting an “orderly coexistent society with foreigners,” appointing Kimi Onoda to that post”. As per the portfolio Kimi Onoda oversees policies on foreign nationals.
View a section from the report below –
Another report published by Asahi Shimbun on October 22, 2025 highlights how Onoda will take a “stricter approach to reduce crimes and other misbehavior of foreigners in Japan.” The report further says the “newly formed Cabinet strongly projects the conservative political stance of new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.” However, there has been no mention or creation of any Ministry of Mass Deportations in any of the reports. View a section from the report below –
Upon searching for cabinet appointments of Prime Minister Sanae Takichi’s Office, we found the list on the official government website. Kimi Onoda is listed as a State Minister in the Cabinet Office with multiple portfolios. One of them is ‘In Charge of Promoting an Orderly Coexistence Society with Foreigners’. There is no mention of any Ministry of Mass Deportations under her portfolio. View a screenshot of this below –
Hence, the claim is false.
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