WAKAMIYA Kenji

• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Elected: Tokyo Bloc (proportional representation), five times
• Born: September 1961, Chiyoda, Tokyo
• Education:
• Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University

• Career:
• Saison Group (Apr. 1984)
• Secretary to TSUTSUMI Seiji, Representative Director of the Saison Group
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense (Sep. 2013)
• State Minister of Defense;
• State Minister of Cabinet Office (Oct. 2015)
• State Minister of Defense;
• State Minister of Cabinet Office (reappointed in Aug. 2016)
• Director, National Defense Division, Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (Aug. 2017)
• Chair, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives (HR) (Oct. 2018)
• State Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sep. 2019)
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on National Security (Oct. 2020)