AKAMA Jiro

• Minister of State, Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission
• Minister in charge of Territorial Issues
• Minister of State for Disaster Management
• Minister of State for Ocean Policy


• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Kanagawa 14th District (single-seat constituency), elected seven times


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: March 1968, Sagamihara, Kanagawa
• Education:
• College of Economics (economics), Rikkyo University, Japan
• PGDip, University of Manchester, UK

• Career:
• Member, Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly
• Volunteer probation officer
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
• State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
• State Minister of Cabinet Office
• State Minister of Cabinet Office
• Deputy Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
• Director, LDP Internal Affairs and Communications Division
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Financial Affairs
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
• Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
• Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Internal Affairs and Communications