(As of March 2025)
ASO Taro
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Fukuoka 8th District (single-seat constituency), elected 15 times
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Born: September 1940, Iizuka, Fukuoka
- Education:
- Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Gakushuin University
- Career:
- President, Aso Cement Co., Ltd.
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Education
- Minister of State, Economic Planning Agency
- Minister of State, Economic and Fiscal Policy
- Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Prime Minister
- Deputy Prime Minister
- Minister of Finance
- Minister of State for Special Missions (Finance)
- Director, Education Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Director, LDP Foreign Affairs Division
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
- Secretary-General, LDP
- President, LDP
- Vice-President, LDP
- Supreme Advisor, LDP
- Chair, HR Special Committee on Coal Problems
- Chair, HR Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Chair, HR Special Committee on Fiscal Structure Reform
- Other:
- Commended by the House for long service (25 years) as a Member of the National Diet in March 2007
