is a Japanese
medical doctor
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
,
attorney
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* Lawyer
** Attorney at law, in some jurisdictions
* Attorney, one who has power of attorney
* ''The Attorney'', a 2013 South Korean film
See also
* Attorney general, the principal legal officer of (or advisor to) a gove ...
, and
politician
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of the
Liberal Democratic Party.
Furukawa attended
Keio University
, mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword
, type = Private research coeducational higher education institution
, established = 1858
, founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa
, endowmen ...
, receiving his M.D. in 1987, followed by a Ph.D. in medical science in 1994 and LL.B. in 1996. He attended the Legal Research Training Institute from 1997–1999 to be qualified as an attorney, and obtained his
MBA at
Saïd Business School in 2005. Furukawa served as assistant professor/professor of medicine at Keio from 1999, and as a part-time lecturer in medicine at
Hirosaki University from 2001 to 2012.
He is also founder and
Chief Executive Officer
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of GBS Laboratory.
Furukawa was elected to the
House of Councillors in the
2007 election and re-elected in the
2013 election. He represents
Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...
for the
Liberal Democratic Party and
Party for Japanese Kokoro
The , officially the , was a Japanese political party. It was formed as the on 1 August 2014 by a group of Diet members led by Shintarō Ishihara. The party adopted its final name in December 2015, and ended up dissolving in November 2018.
Histo ...
. He previously served as Chairman of the Committee on Financial Affairs, and is currently a member of the Committee on Judicial Affairs, Committee on Audit, and Commission on the Constitution.
He serves as counsel to
TMI Associates, a law firm in Tokyo.
References
External links
Toshiharu Furukawaofficial website
1963 births
Living people
Alumni of St Cross College, Oxford
Alumni of Saïd Business School
Japanese health care chief executives
Keio University alumni
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
People from Saitama (city)
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