(As of October 2025)
KIHARA Minoru
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Minister in charge of Mitigating the Impact of U.S. Forces in Okinawa
Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue
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 (served for the longest term 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
