is a Japanese

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who served as the

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The minister is also a statutory member of the National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council, and ...

from August until November 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also serves in the House of Representatives and was Special Advisor to Prime Minister

Fumio Kishida is a Japanese politician serving as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2021. A member of the House of Representatives, he previously served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2017 and ...

from December 2021 to August 2022. A native of

Hiroshima, Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...

and graduate of the University of Tokyo (Alma mater, Faculty of Law), Terada joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980, attending

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while in the ministry, in 1982. Terada's wife Keiko is a granddaughter of Hayato Ikeda, former

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. He was elected for the first time in 2004, when he left the ministry after the death of his uncle and former

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. Terada also served as Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office, and Senior Vice Minister for Reconstruction Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby

Nippon Kaigi The Right side up ...

, which advocates a return to militarism in Japan, Terada is in favor of allowing collective self-defense. On November 20, 2022, Terada was sacked from his position as the

after a magazine alleging him of misusing political funds, prompting calls for his resignation from opposition parties who saw him as unfit to supervise election-related laws.

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Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Terada, Minoru 1958 births Living people 21st-century Japanese politicians Harvard University alumni Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Members of Nippon Kaigi Ministers of Internal Affairs of Japan Politicians from Hiroshima Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni