(As of September 2023)
KOKUBA Konosuke
- State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Elected: Kyushu Bloc (proportional representation), four times
- Born: January 1973, Naha, Okinawa
- Education:
- Department of Philosophy, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University (coursework toward a bachelor's degree)
- School of Social Sciences (Major in Comparative Politics), Waseda University
- Career:
- Present posts:
- Acting Director, Economy, Trade and Industry Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Chief Secretary, LDP Research Commission on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise and Small Business
- Director, Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems, House of Representatives
- Past posts:
- Secretary General, Waseda University "Yubenkai" (eloquence club)
- Company worker
- Member, Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (two terms)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Deputy Director, LDP Youth Division
- Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- Chairperson, Federation of Okinawa Prefecture LDP Branches
