Profile

Date of Birth: April 13, 1953
Place of Birth: Iwate Prefecture
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
Member of the House of Representatives
Constituency: Iwate 2nd District
Number of Elected: 10

 

Past career

Education

1977	Graduated from the School of Education, Waseda University

Career

Nov. 2021	Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services, Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation (2nd Kishida Cabinet)
Oct. 2021	Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services, Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation (Kishida Cabinet)
Feb. 2021	Chairman, Research Commission on Environment and Global Warming Countermeasures, LDP
Sep. 2019	Chairman, General Council, LDP
Apr. 2019	Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games (4th reshuffled Abe Cabinet)
Nov. 2017	Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games (4th Abe Cabinet)
Aug. 2017	Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games(3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd reshuffled))
Apr. 2017	Chairman, Special Committee on Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the House of Representatives
2015	Chairman, Finance Committee, LDP
2015	Chairman, Tohoku Bloc Conference of Party Members of Both Houses of the Diet, LDP
2015	Acting Chairman, General Council, LDP
2015	Chairman, Special Committee on the Tobacco Industry, LDP
2014	Chief Vice-Chairman, Headquarters for Overcoming Population Decline and Regional Revitalization, LDP
2014	Vice-Chairman, Headquarters for Accelerating Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, LDP
2014	Member of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Executive Committee
2013	Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, the House of Representatives
2012	State Minister for Foreign Affairs (2nd Abe Cabinet)
2008	Chairman, Party Ethics Committee, LDP
2007	President, All-Japan Federation of National Health Insurance Organizations
2006	Chairman, Research Commission on the Social Security System, LDP
2004	Chairman, Research Commission on Fishery Policies, LDP
2002	Minister of the Environment (1st reshuffled Koizumi Cabinet)
2001	Chairman, Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare, the House of Representatives
1998	Director, Social Affairs Division, LDP
1996	Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Health and Welfare (2nd Hashimoto Cabinet)
1994	Director, Fisheries Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
1990	Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. *Subsequently elected to nine terms as a member of the House of Representatives