MOTEGI Toshimitsu
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Profile
- Date of birth
- October 7, 1955
- Place of Birth
- Tochigi Prefecture
- Political party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
- Affiliation
- Member of the House of Representatives
- Constituency
- Tochigi 5 District
- Number of times elected
- 11
Past career
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- 1983
- Completed Master's Degree at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- 1978
- Graduated from Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo
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- Oct. 2025
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
(Takaichi Cabinet) - Nov. 2021
- Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party
- Oct. 2021
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Sep. 2020
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Sep. 2019
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Oct. 2018
- Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization
Minister in charge of Social Security Reform Oriented to All Generations
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy - Nov. 2017
- Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization
Minister for Human Resources Development
Minister in charge of Total Reform of Social Security and Tax
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy - Aug. 2017
- Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization
Minister for Human Resources Development
Minister in charge of Total Reform of Social Security and Tax
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy - Aug. 2016
- Chairperson, Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
- Sep. 2014
- Chairperson, Election Strategy Committee, Liberal Democratic Party
- Dec. 2012
- Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation Facilitation Corporation
Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact caused by the Nuclear Accident
Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness - Sep. 2011
- Chairperson, Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
- Sep. 2009
- Chairperson, Federation of Tochigi Prefecture Liberal Democratic Party Branches
- Aug. 2008
- Minister of State for Financial Services and Administrative Reform
- Sep. 2007
- Chair, Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare, House of Representatives
- Sep. 2003
- Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, Science and Technology Policy, and Information Technology
- Oct. 2002
- State Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Oct. 1999
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of International Trade and Industry
- Jul. 1993
- Elected to the House of Representatives (Tochigi Prefecture 5th district)
(elected 11 times consecutively) - 1984 - 1992
- Management Consultant, Mckinsey & Company
- 1983
- Political Journalist of the Yomiuri Shimbun
- 1978 - 1980
- Marubeni Corporation