AKAMA Jiro
Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of Territorial Issues
Minister of State for Disaster Management
Minister of State for Ocean Policy
Profile
- Date of birth
- March 27, 1968
- Place of Birth
- Kanagawa Prefecture
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Kanagawa 14th district
Past career
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- 1993
- Master’s in Economics and Data Science, University of Manchester
- 1991
- Graduated from Department of Economics, College of Economics, Rikkyo University
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- Oct. 2025
- Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission
Minister in charge of Territorial Issues
Minister of State for Disaster Management
Minister of State for Ocean Policy
(Takaichi Cabinet) - Dec. 2024
- Senior Director, Standing Committee on Internal Affairs and Communications, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2024
- Elected to the House of Representatives (sixth term)
- Oct. 2023
- Senior Director, Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2021
- Elected to the House of Representatives (fifth term)
- Oct. 2020
- Chair, Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2019
- Director, Standing Committee on Financial Affairs, House of Representatives
- Oct. 2018
- Director, Internal Affairs and Communications Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Nov. 2017
- State Minister of Cabinet Office
(4th Abe cabinet) - Oct. 2017
- Elected to the House of Representatives (fourth term)
- Sep. 2017
- State Minister of Cabinet Office
(3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd reshuffled)) - Aug. 2017
- Director, Internal Affairs and Communications Division, Policy Research Council, LDP
- Aug. 2016
- State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and State Minister of Cabinet Office
(3rd Abe cabinet (2nd reshuffled)) - Oct. 2015
- Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
- Dec. 2014
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
(3rd Abe cabinet)
Elected to the House of Representatives (third term) - Sep. 2014
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
(2nd Abe cabinet (reshuffled)) - Jan. 2013
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- Dec. 2012
- Elected to the House of Representatives (second term)
- Sep. 2005
- First elected to the House of Representatives
- Apr. 1999
- Member, Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly (two terms (six years))