(As of March 2025)
KIHARA Minoru
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Kumamoto 1st District (single-seat constituency), elected six times
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Born: 12 August 1969, Kumamoto City, Kumamoto
- Education:
- School of Education, Waseda University
- Career:
- 2024 -Chairperson, Research Commission on Security, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- 2023 - 2024Minister of Defense
- 2022 - 2023Chair, HR Standing Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- 2021 -Chief Secretary, LDP Policy Research Council
- 2021 -Secretary General, LDP Research Commission on Security
- 2021 -Member of the House of Representatives (5th term)
- 2019 - 2021Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs
- 2019 - 2019Deputy Chairperson, LDP Election Strategy Committee
- 2018 - 2019Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
- 2018 - 2019Director, HR Commission on the Constitution
- 2017 - 2018State Minister of Finance - 2nd term (longest days' appointment ever)
- 2017 -Member of the House of Representatives - 4th term
- 2016 - 2017State Minister of Finance - 1st term
- 2015 - 2016Director, LDP Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Division
- 2014 - 2017Member of the House of Representatives - 3rd term
- 2014 - 2015Director, LDP Youth Division
- 2013 - 2014Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense
- 2012 - 2014Member of the House of Representatives - 2nd term
- 2009 - 2012Deputy Chairperson of LDP Joint Committee for Kumamoto
- 2005 - 2009Member of the House of Representatives - 1st term
- 2004 - 2005LDP School of Politics
- 1993 - 2004Junior Executive, Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.()
- Other:
- Political Goal: Keep Japan an exceptional world class country with national and personal independence through defense and education systems
