HOSODA Kenichi

• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Elected: Niigata 2nd District (single-seat constituency), four times
• Born: July 1964, Kobe, Hyogo
• Education:
• Faculty of Law, Kyoto University (1988)

• Career:
• Ministry of International Trade and Industry (1988)
•   -Minister's Secretariat
•   -Living Industry Bureau
• Embassy of Japan in Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
• Resigned from the government (Sep. 2006)
• Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
• Secretary for Policy/Legislative Affairs to a Member of the House of Representatives (HR)
• Chairperson, Liberal Democratic Party Niigata Prefecture HR 2nd Electoral District Branch (July 2012)
• First elected to the HR (Dec. 2012)
• Reelected to the HR (Dec. 2014)
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Aug. 2016)