KONO Taro
Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister in charge of Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform
Minister in charge of Digital Garden City Nation Vision
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
Profile
- Date of birth
- January 10, 1963
- Place of Birth
- Kanagawa, Japan
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Kanagawa 15th District
- Number of times elected
- 9
Past career
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- Dec. 1985
- Graduated from Georgetown University, USA
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- Sep. 2023
- Appointed Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister in charge of Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform
Minister in charge of Digital Garden City Nation Vision
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
(2nd Kishida Cabinet (2nd reshuffled)) - Aug. 2022
- Appointed 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
- Apointed Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out
(Suga Cabinet) - Sep. 2020
- Appointed 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
- Appointed Minister of Defense
(4th Abe Cabinet (2nd Reshuffled)) - Aug. 2017
- Appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs
(3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd Reshuffled)) - Oct. 2015
- Appointed 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
- Elected Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the House of Representatives
- Nov. 2005
- Appointed State Minister of Justice
(3rd Koizumi Cabinet (Reshuffled)) - Apr. 2002
- Became a living donor and transplanted the liver to his father
- Jan. 2002
- Appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
(1st Koizumi Cabinet) - Dec. 1999
- Appointed Chairman of Shonan Bellmare Co., Ltd..
- Oct. 1996
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. Since then, elected 9 times consecutively
- Jan. 1993
- Joined Nippon Tanshi Co., Ltd.
- Feb. 1986
- Joined Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.