| Sep. 2008 | Appointed Minister of Justice
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| Aug. 2008 | Senior Director of the Rules and Administration Committee, Chairman of the Political Ethics and Screening Commission, House of Representatives
Deputy Chairman of the Diet Affairs Committee, LDP
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| Sep. 2007 | Member of the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, House of Representatives
Chairman of the Research Commission on Electric and Nuclear Power Plant Production, LDP
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| Sep. 2006 | Deputy Chairman of the General Council, LDP |
| Jan. 2006 | Director of the Budget Committee, House of Representatives |
| Nov. 2005 | Executive Deputy Secretary-General, Chairman of the Committee for the Promotion of Peninsula Areas, Director of the Labor Administration Division, LDP
Member of the Economy, Trade and Industry Committee, Member of the Special Committee on Disasters, House of Representatives
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| Sep. 2005 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives for a sixth term
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| Oct. 2004 | Deputy Chairman of the Policy Research Council, LDP |
| Nov. 2003 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives for a fifth term
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| Sep. 2003 | Senior Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (`Sept. 2004)
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| Feb. 2003 | Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Representatives
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| Oct. 2002 | Member of the Policy Deliberation Commission, LDP
Member of the Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, House of Representatives
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| May 2002 | Chairman of the Federation of Chiba Prefecture Liberal Democratic Party Branches
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| Jan. 2002 | Chairman of the Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, House of Representatives
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| April 2001 | Deputy Secretary-General of the LDP
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| Dec. 2000 | Senior Director of the Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, House of Representatives
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| July 2000 | Director of the Rules and Administration Committee, House of Representatives
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| June 2000 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives for a fourth term
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| Oct. 1999 | Deputy Chairman of the Diet Affairs Committee, LDP
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| Aug. 1998 | Director of the Labor Division, LDP
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| Nov. 1996 | Director of the Fisheries Division, LDP
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| Oct. 1996 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives for a third term
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| Oct. 1995 | Director of the Labor Committee, House of Representatives
Director of the Foreign Affairs Division, LDP
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| July 1994 | Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Labor
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| July 1993 | Re-elected to the House of Representatives for a second term
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| Feb. 1990 | Elected for the first time to the House of Representatives
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| April 1974 | Entered Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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