KIUCHI Minoru
Minister in charge of Economic Security
Minister of State for "Cool Japan" Strategy
Minister of State for Intellectual Property Strategy
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Space Policy
Minister of State for Economic Security
Profile
- Date of birth
- April 19, 1965
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Shizuoka 7th
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- Mar. 1989
- Graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences majoring in International Affairs
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- Nov. 2024
- Minister in charge of Economic Security
Minister of State for "Cool Japan" Strategy
Minister of State for Intellectual Property Strategy
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Space Policy
Minister of State for Economic Security
(2nd Ishiba Cabinet) - Oct. 2024
- Minister in charge of Economic Security
Minister of State for "Cool Japan" Strategy
Minister of State for Intellectual Property Strategy
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Space Policy
Minister of State for Economic Security
(1st Ishiba Cabinet) - Dec. 2023
- Deputy Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Sept. 2023
- Deputy Chair of the Policy Research Council of the LDP
- Oct. 2022
- Senior Director, Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems
Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs - May 2022
- Chairperson, Federation of Shizuoka Prefecture LDP Branches
- Oct. 2021
- Chair, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, HR
49th Lower House elections:
re-elected as LDP candidate in Shizuoka prefecture - Oct. 2019
- Deputy Chairperson, Diet Affairs Committee, LDP
- Oct. 2018
- State Minister for the Environment
(4th Abe Cabinet(Reshuffled)) - Oct. 2017
- 48th Lower House elections:
Re-elected as LDP candidate in Shizuoka prefecture - Aug. 2017
- Director, Economy, Trade and Industry Division, LDP
Director-General, Information Research Bureau, LDP - Sept. 2016
- Chair, Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues, House of Representatives (HR)
- Oct. 2015
- Acting Director-General, International Bureau, LDP
- Dec. 2014
- 47th Lower House elections:
re-elected as LDP candidate in Shizuoka prefecture
State Minister for Foreign Affairs
(3rd Abe Cabinet) - Sept. 2014
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs
(2nd Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled)) - Sept. 2013
- Director of Foreign Affairs Division at LDP
- Dec. 2012
- 46th Lower House elections:
re-elected as LDP candidate in Shizuoka prefecture
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
(2nd Abe Cabinet) - Aug. 2009
- 45th Lower House elections:
elected as independent candidate in Shizuoka prefecture - Apr. 2006
- Visiting Professor, Takushoku University
Faculty Member, Seisa Kokusai High School - Nov. 2003
- 43rd Lower House elections:
elected as independent candidate in Shizuoka prefecture - Apr. 1989
- Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs