is a Japanese entrepreneur, enterprise manager, and politician from Tokyo.

Your Party is a Japanese parliamentary caucus consisting of Yoshimi Watanabe and Takashi Tachibana, later Satoshi Hamada after Tachibana forfeited his seat, in the House of Councillors. It was also a political party led by Watanabe from 2009 until its ...

was a Japanese political party to which Kota Matsuda belonged until its disbanding in December 2014. He founded The Assembly to Energize Japan in January 2015 and was the party leader.

Career

Matsuda is the founder and ex-President/CEO of

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Japan and an ex-member of the

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. He left

Sanwa Bank The was a major Japanese bank headquartered in Osaka, which operated from 1933 to 2002. It resulted from the merger of three local banks, (est. 1877 as 13th National Bank), (est. 1878), and (est. 1879 as 148th National Bank). In 2002, Sanwa ...

(now Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Bank) and founded

in Japan, which became the second-largest specialty coffee chain in the country after

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Coffee Japan. Following his prior accomplishments, he successfully ran for a position in the House of Councilors - the Upper House of the Japanese Parliament - representing the electoral district of Tokyo.

Timeline

1968–1986: Born in Japan, grew up in

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and the United States. 1986–1990:

Tsukuba University is a national research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making ...

1990–1996: Banker (Sanwa→Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ) 1997–2007: Founder and CEO of

Japan 2007–2009: Tully's Coffee International, President of Quiznos Asia-Pac, AFCM 2010- : Founded EGGS 'N THINGS JAPAN KK 2010–2016: Member of the

House of Councillors The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers. If the t ...

of Japan. (Tokyo District) 2015–2018: Founding member of The Assembly to Energize Japan 2019- : Founder and CEO of KooJoo Co., Ltd

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* 1968 births Living people Businesspeople from Tokyo Businesspeople in coffee Japanese expatriates in Senegal Japanese chief executives Japanese expatriates in the United States Your Party politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) Politicians from Tokyo University of Tsukuba alumni {{Japan-politician-1960s-stub