SUZUKI Shunichi
Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation
Profile
- Date of birth
- April 13, 1953
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Iwate 2nd District
- Numbers of elected
- 10
Past career
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- 1977
- Graduated from the School of Education, Waseda University
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- Aug. 2022
- Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation
(2nd Kishida Cabinet (reshuffled)) - 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
(1st Kishida Cabinet) - Feb. 2021
- Chairperson, Research Commission on Environment and Global Warming Countermeasures, LDP
- Sep. 2019
- Chairperson, General Council, LDP
- Apr. 2019
- Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games (4th Abe Cabinet (reshuffled))
- 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
- Chairperson, Special Committee on Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, House of Representatives
- 2015
- Chairperson, Finance Committee, LDP
Chairperson, Tohoku Bloc Conference of Party Members of Both Houses of the Diet, LDP
Acting Chairperson, General Council, LDP
Chairperson, Special Committee on the Tobacco Industry, LDP - 2014
- Chief Vice-Chairperson, Headquarters for Overcoming Population Decline and Regional Revitalization, LDP
Vice-Chairperson, Headquarters for Accelerating Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, LDP
Member, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Executive Committee - 2013
- Chairperson, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
- 2012
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs (2nd Abe Cabinet)
- 2008
- Chairperson, Party Ethics Committee, LDP
- 2007
- President, All-Japan Federation of National Health Insurance Organizations
- 2006
- Chairperson, Research Commission on the Social Security System, LDP
- 2004
- Chairperson, Research Commission on Fishery Policies, LDP
- 2002
- Minister of the Environment (1st Koizumi Cabinet (reshuffled))
- 2001
- Chairperson, Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare, House of Representatives
- 1998
- Director, Social Affairs Division, LDP
- 1996
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Health and Welfare (2nd Hashimoto Cabinet)
- 1994
- Director, Fisheries Division, LDP
- 1990
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (39th General Election)