TANI Kouichi
Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of Building National Resilience
Minister in charge of Territorial Issues
Minister of State for Disaster Management and Ocean Policy
Profile
- Date of birth
- January 28, 1952
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Hyogo 5th District
- Numbers of elected
- 7
Past career
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- Mar. 1975
- Graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
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- Aug. 2022
- Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in Charge of Building National Resilience
Minister of State for Disaster Management and Ocean Policy
Minister in Charge of Territorial Issues
(2nd Kishida Cabinet (reshuffled)) - Nov. 2021
- Ruling Party’s Chief Director, Committee on Budget, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2021
- Acting Chairperson, Policy Research Council, LDP
- Jun. 2021
- Representative Chairperson, National Federation of Inlandwater Fisheries Cooperatives
- Sep. 2020
- Director, Interest Group Policy Division, Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters, LDP
- Sep. 2019
- Deputy Chairperson, General Council, LDP
- Nov. 2018
- Chairperson, Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2017
- Chairperson, Special Committee on Reconstruction after Great East Japan Earthquake, House of Representatives
- Aug. 2016
- Deputy Chairperson, Policy Research Council, LDP
- Jun. 2016
- Chairperson, Federation of Hyogo Prefecture LDP Branches
- Jan. 2016
- Chairperson, Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2014
- Special Advisor to the Minister for Reconstruction
- Dec. 2012
- Senior Vice-Minister for Reconstruction (2nd Abe Cabinet)
- Sep. 2008
- Meeting facilitator, Committee on Rules and Administration
- Aug. 2008
- Deputy Chairperson, Diet Affairs Committee, LDP
- Sep. 2007
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Fukuda Cabinet)
- Aug. 2007
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (1st Abe Cabinet)
- Oct. 2006
- Manager, Research Commission on the Tax System, LDP
- Jul. 2005
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- Nov. 2003
- Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (43rd General Election)
- Aug. 2003
- Chairperson, LDP Hyogo Prefecture House of Representatives 5th District
- Apr. 1975
- Joined the Hyogo Prefectural Government; Ministry of Home Affairs (current Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications); Fire and Disaster Management Agency; Director-General of Prefectural Disaster Prevention Bureau and Director of Prefectural Policies Office