KOKUBA Konosuke

• Chair, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives


• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Okinawa 1st District (single-seat constituency), elected six times


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: January 1973, Naha, Okinawa
• Education:
• College of Humanities and Sciences (philosophy), Nihon University (coursework toward a bachelor's degree)
• School of Social Sciences, Waseda University

• Career:
• Company employee
• Member, Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (two terms)
• State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Special Advisor to the President, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Director, LDP First Cabinet Division
• Director, LDP National Defense Division
• Acting Director, LDP Economy, Trade and Industry Division
• Deputy Director, Youth Division, LDP Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters
• Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
• Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
• Chairperson, Federation of Okinawa Prefecture LDP Branches

• Other:
• Secretary General, Waseda University Yubenkai (speech club)