AKIBA Kenya

• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tohoku Bloc (proportional representation), elected eight times


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: 3 July 1962, Miyagi
• Education:
• Faculty of Law, Chuo University
• Master of Law, Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University

• Career:
• Lecturer, Tohoku Fukushi University
• Member, Miyagi Prefectural Assembly (three terms)
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
• State Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
• State Minister for Reconstruction
• Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
• Minister for Reconstruction
• Deputy Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Director, LDP Foreign Affairs Division
• Deputy Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
• Director-General, LDP Information Research Bureau
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Environment
• Chair, HR Special Committee on Disasters
• Volunteer probation officer
• Lecturer, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University

• Other:
• Matsushita Institute of Government and Management