is a Japanese

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

of the

New Komeito Party , formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalitio ...

, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Osaka, Osaka and graduate of Soka University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993.

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in Japanese. 1955 births Living people People from Osaka Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) New Komeito politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub