KONO Taro
Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister for Digital Reform
Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Profile
- Date of birth
- January 10, 1963
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Kanagawa 15th District
- Numbers of elected
- 9
Past career
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- Dec. 1985
- Graduated from Georgetown University, U.S.A.
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- Aug. 2022
- Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister for Digital Reform
Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
(2nd Kishida Cabinet (reshuffled)) - Jan. 2021
- Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out
(Suga Cabinet) - Sep. 2020
- Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
(Suga Cabinet) - Sep. 2019
- Minister of Defense (4th Abe Cabinet (2nd reshuffled))
- Aug. 2017
- Minister for Foreign Affairs (3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd reshuffled))
- Oct. 2015
- Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Disaster Management
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
(3rd Abe Cabinet (reshuffled)) - Sep. 2008
- Chairperson, Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Representatives
- Nov. 2005
- State Minister of Justice (3rd Koizumi Cabinet (reshuffled))
- Apr. 2002
- Became a living donor and transplanted the liver to his father
- Jan. 2002
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (1st Koizumi Cabinet)
- Dec. 1999
- Chairperson, Shonan Bellmare Co., Ltd.
- Oct. 1996
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (41st General Election)
- Jan. 1993
- Joined Nippon Tanshi Co., Ltd.
- Feb. 1986
- Joined Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd