(As of December 2023)
HAYASHI Yoshimasa
- Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Minister in charge of Mitigating the Impact of U.S. Forces in Okinawa
- Minister in charge of the Abductions Issue
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Elected: Yamaguchi 3rd District (single-seat constituency), once
- Born: 1961
- Education:
- Shimonoseki-Nishi High School, Japan
- Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan (class of 1984)
- Master in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
- Career:
- Member, House of Councillors (HC) (Yamaguchi Prefecture, five terms)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance
- State Minister of Cabinet Office
- Minister of Defense
- Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
- Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
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- Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
- Yamaguchi Gohdoh Gas Co., Ltd.
- Moved to the US (1991)
- Worked on legislation of the Mansfield Fellowship Program as a Congressional Intern of US Senator William Roth
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- Elected to the House of Councillors (1995)
- Chairman, HC Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense
- Chairman, HC Special Committee on Official Development Assistance and Related Matters
- Chairman, HC Special Committee on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
- Chairman, HC Commission on the Constitution
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- Chief Secretary, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Chairperson, LDP Policy Board in the HC
- Acting Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
- Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Strategy
- Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Intellectual Property Strategy
- Chairperson, LDP Subcommittee, Research Commission on the Tax System
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- Elected to the House of Representatives (2021)