MURAKAMI Seiichiro

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

Face Photo:MURAKAMI Seiichiro

Profile

Date of birth
May 11, 1952
Hometown
Ehime Prefecture
Political party
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
Affiliation
Member of the House of Representatives
Constituency
Ehime 2nd
Number of times elected
13

Past career

  • Mar. 1978
    Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
  • Nov. 2024
    Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2nd Ishiba Cabinet)
    Oct. 2024
    Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (1st Ishiba Cabinet)
    Elected to the House of Representatives in the 50th general election
    Oct. 2021
    Elected to the House of Representatives in the 49th general election
    Dec. 2012
    Chair of the Political Ethics Committee, House of Representatives
    Dec. 2009
    Chair of the Administrative Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party
    Oct. 2007
    Chair of the Shikoku Bloc of the Liberal Democratic Party in both Houses of the Diet
    Chair of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Special Committee on Maritime Transport and Shipbuilding
    Sept. 2005
    Minister of State in charge of Administrative Reform, Special Zones for Structural Reform, and Regional Revitalization
    Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, Cabinet Office (3rd Koizumi Cabinet )
    Sept. 2004
    Minister of State in charge of Administrative Reform, Special Zones for Structural Reform, and Regional Revitalization
    Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, Cabinet Office (2nd Koizumi Cabinet )
    May 2001
    State Minister of Finance (1st Koizumi Cabinet )
    Jan. 2001
    State Minister of Finance (2nd Mori Cabinet (Reshuffled))
    Sept. 1997
    Chair of the Finance Committee, House of Representatives
    Sept. 1994
    Chair of the Special Committee on Coal Measures, House of Representatives
    Mar. 1993
    Chair of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Ehime Prefectural Chapter
    Dec. 1992
    Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance (Miyazawa Cabinet (Reshuffled))
    Jul. 1986
    First elected to the House of Representatives in the 38th general election