is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), having been elected in the 2012 general election. He is a former career bureaucrat in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (briefly serving as Director of the CLAIR London Office) and graduate of University of Tokyo. Having unsuccessfully contested his

Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan ** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture *** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics *** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano *** Nagano Universi ...

no. 2 constituency in the 2009 general election, he then served as a professor of local administration at

Kanagawa University , abbreviated to is a private university in Japan. The main campus is located in Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. History The university was founded in 1928 by as . It was an evening school for the working youth. In 1 ...

. Mutai was Secretary to the Alliance of Legislators who wish to legislate for

Mountain Day Mountain Day refers to three different and unrelated events: (1) Mountain Day, a student celebration in some colleges in the United States in which classes are cancelled without prior notice, and the student body heads to the mountains or a park, ( ...

, which was inaugurated in August 201

In 2016 Mutai was appointed Parliamentary Vice Minister for Reconstruction and shortly after hit global headlines concerning an incident concerning a ministerial visit to a disaster-hit region

Half year later at a campaign party Mutai joked about the incident only to be criticized by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. Mutai resigned from his post on the following day

At the 2017 Japanese general election, 2017 general election Mutai was defeated in his Nagano constituency but re-elected to the Diet under his party's proportional representation blo

He was reappointed to government as a State Minister for the Environment in October 202

but relieved of his position in the August 2022 Kishida reshuffl

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LDP profile page (English)

Twitter account
1956 births Living people People from Nagano Prefecture Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians University of Tokyo alumni Kanagawa University faculty {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub