(As of March 2025)
KATO Katsunobu
Minister of Finance
Minister of State for Financial Services
Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Okayama 3rd District (single-seat constituency), elected eight times
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Born: November 1955, Tokyo
- Education:
- Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo
- Career:
- Ministry of Finance
- Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Director, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Finance
- Secretary to KATO Mutsuki, HR Member
- Visiting Professor, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office
- Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Head, Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs
- Minister for Promoting Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens
- Minister for Working-style Reform
- Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment
- Minister in charge of "Challenge Again" Initiative
- Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue
- Minister in charge of Building National Resilience
- Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate
- Minister of State for Gender Equality
- Minister of State for the Abduction Issue
- Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Minister in charge of Mitigating the Impact of U.S. Forces in Okinawa
- Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue
- Director, Health, Labour and Welfare Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Special Advisor to the President, LDP
- Director-General, LDP Information Bureau
- Chairperson, LDP General Council
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Environment
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Cabinet
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Budget
- Director, HR Commission on the Constitution
