is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

of the

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and a former member of the

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in the

Diet of Japan , transcription_name = ''Kokkai'' , legislature = 215th Session of the National Diet , coa_pic = Flag of Japan.svg , house_type = Bicameral , houses = , foundation=29 November 1890(), leader1_type ...

. A native of Matsudo City, Chiba he attended

Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...

as an undergraduate and received a master's degree from

Meiji University is a Private university, private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920. As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergradu ...

. He was elected to the

Chiba Prefectural Assembly The is the prefectural parliament of Chiba Prefecture. Current composition As of 2021, the assembly was composed as follows: Organisation President and Vice-President *President: Mitsuyasu Shida ( LDP), elected from Chōshi and Tōnoshō ...

in 1995 (serving for one term) and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996. He was appointed by

Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. ...

as Minister of Reconstruction on 2 October 2018 and left the position on 11 September 2019. He was succeeded by

Kazunori Tanaka is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and Minister of Reconstruction. A native of Toyoura District, Yamaguchi and graduate of Hosei Universi ...

Remarks

Yoshitaka Sakurada is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. He formerly served as Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Fourth Abe ...

is Watanabe's old friend. *

Yoshio Mochizuki was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), and a Minister of the Environment. Early life Mochizuki was a native of Shimizu, Shizuoka and graduate o ...

is similar to Watanabe.

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