is a Japanese
politician of the
Liberal Democratic Party and member of the
House of Representatives in the
Diet (national legislature), representing the
Tottori 2nd district in
Tottori Prefecture.
A native of
Bunkyō, Tokyo and graduate of the
University of Tokyo, he joined the
Ministry of Transport in 1984 and attended
Cornell University in the United States while in the ministry.
He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the
2005 Japanese general election
General elections were held in Japan on 11 September 2005 for all 480 seats of the House of Representatives of Japan, the lower house of the Diet of Japan, almost two years before the end of the term taken from the last election in 2003. Prime ...
where he was one of the so-called "
Koizumi Children" elected amid the popularity of Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi. He was re-elected in the
2009 general election and the
2012 general election.
He gained some notoriety in August 2011 after berating Economy Minister
Banri Kaieda for twenty minutes on the floor of the Diet over the ministry's handling of the
Fukushima disaster, ultimately bringing Kaieda to tears. Kaieda resigned several days later.
His great-grandfather was a former samurai and industrialist, while his grandfather
Masamichi Akazawa
Masamichi (written 正道, 正通, 正則, 正路, 政通, 昌道, 誠道 or 将道) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Masamichi Abe, Japanese video game director
*, Japanese composer
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was a Japanese diplomat prior to World War II and served in the Diet after the war, including as a cabinet minister under
Hayato Ikeda and
Eisaku Satō.
Honours
* : Grand Officer of the
Order of Orange-Nassau (29 October 2014)
Decoraties Staatsbezoeken Japan en Republiek Korea
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References
External links
Official website
in Japanese.
Politicians from Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
Cornell University alumni
Koizumi Children
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Living people
1960 births
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
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