Career
Born on April 21, 1950, registered address: Kanae-cho, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture
〇March 1970: Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; June 1978: Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration.
〇 Joined the Ministry of Finance in April 1971. Kishiwada Tax Director, Osaka Regional Taxation Bureau, Planning Officer, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Finance, Kiichi Miyazawa, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Retired from Ministry of Finance in 1993, Member of the Western House in 1994 Member Kiichi Miyazawa Policy Secret Book, was elected in June 2000 in the 7th Ward of Hiroshima Prefecture, Wuren-in (selected for three consecutive terms), Chairman of the Health, Labor and Welfare Division, Chairman of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Division, etc. In August 2008, he was elected Deputy Minister of State (in charge of economy, finance, decentralization reform, etc.), and in July 2010 he was elected to the House of Councilors election (Hiroshima prefecture's selected ward). Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in October 2014, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Taxation Research Committee in 2015, 2021, 2020, and 2020, Chairman of the Research Committee on Resources and Energy of the National Institute of Japan in 2019, Chairman of the Research Institute on Resources, Energy, and Sustainable Society of the National Institute of Japan in 2020, Chairman of the Finance and Finance Committee of the National Institute of Japan in August 2020, and Chairman of the Information Monitoring and Review Committee of the National Institute of Japan in October 2020.
(Appointed on December 18, 2020)