(As of March 2025)
KANEKO Yasushi
Chair, Special Committee on Reconstruction after Great East Japan Earthquake and Disaster Management, House of Representatives
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Kumamoto 4th District (single-seat constituency), elected nine times
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Born: February 1961, Fukada (now Asagiri), Kuma, Kumamoto
- Education:
- School of Commerce, Waseda University
- Career:
- Chairperson, Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Acting Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
- Chairperson, LDP Forestry Policy Committee
- Director, LDP Youth Division
- Member, HR Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Member, HR Special Committee on Disasters
- Chair, HR Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Senior Director (ruling parties), HR Standing Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare
- Senior Director (ruling parties), HR Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Chair, HR Special Committee on Disasters
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
