(As of January 2024)
MAEHARA Seiji
- In-House Group: Japan Innovation Party and Free Education For All (Nippon Ishin and Free Education For All)
- Elected: Kyoto 2nd District (single-seat constituency), ten times
- Born: 30 April 1962, Sakyo, Kyoto City Kyoto
- Education:
- Faculty of Law, Kyoto University (Major in International Politics, Prof. KOSAKA Masataka seminar)
- Career:
- Member, Kyoto Prefectural Assembly
- Director, Foreign Affairs Division;
- Director, Defense Division, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
- Worked on formulating the National Defense Program Guidelines and the Mid-Term Defense Program
- Senior Director, Standing Committee on Rules and Administration, House of Representatives (HR)
- Chair, Judge Indictment Committee
- Chair, HR Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems
- Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Hatoyama Cabinet)
- (Worked on internationalization of Haneda Airport, conclusion of the Open Skies Agreement, and revitalization of Japan Airlines)
- Minister for Foreign Affairs (Kan Cabinet)
- Minister for National Policy;
- Minister for Ocean Policy;
- Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy;
- Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy;
- Minister of State for the Nuclear Power Policy and Administration;
- Minister of State for Space Policy (Noda Cabinet)
- President, DPJ
- Chair, DPJ Policy Research Committee
- President, Democratic Party
- Other:
- Matsushita Institute of Government and Management (8th class)
