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Yoshimasa HAYASHI

Yoshimasa HAYASHI

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding

Date of Birth: January 19, 1961
Place of Birth: Tokyo
Political Party: Liberal Democratic Party
Member of the House of Councilors(Elected 4 times)
Constituency: Yamaguchi
Education
March 1984 Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
Career
August 2017 Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding
October 2016 Chairman, Special Committee on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement in the House of Councilors
February 2015 Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (reappointed)
September 2014 Deputy Chairman and Acting Chairman of Subcommittee of the LDP Research Commission on the Tax System
December 2012 Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
September 2012 Ran in the LDP presidential election
Chairman, Kochi-Kai (to date)
October 2009 Chairman, LDP Policy Board in the House of Councilors
Acting Chairman, LDP Policy Research Council
July 2009 Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
August 2008 Minister of Defense
September 2006 State Minister
October 2004 Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense in the House of Councilors
January 2002 Chief Secretary, LDP Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters
October 1999 Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance
July 1997 Deputy Secretary-General of the LDP in the House of Councilors
July 1995 Elected to the House of Councilors for the first time
(17th General Election) (Yamaguchi electoral district)
June 1994 Received Master in Public Administration from Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
April 1984 Joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

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