SUZUKI Shunichi
Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation
Profile
- Date of birth
- April 13, 1953
- Place of Birth
- Iwate, Japan
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Iwate 2nd district
- Number of times elected
- 10
Past career
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- 1977
- Graduated from School of Education, Waseda University
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- Sep. 2023
- Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation
(2nd Kishida Cabinet (2nd reshuffled)) - 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
(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
Chairman, Tohoku Bloc Conference of Party Members of Both Houses of the Diet, LDP
Acting Chairman, General Council, LDP
Chairman, Special Committee on the Tobacco Industry, LDP - 2014
- Chief Vice-Chairman, Headquarters for Overcoming
Population Decline and Regional Revitalization, LDP
Vice-Chairman, Headquarters for Accelerating Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, LDP
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 ten terms as a member of the House of Representatives