SAITO Tetsuo

• Chair, Standing Committee on Discipline, House of Representatives


• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Chugoku Bloc (proportional representation), elected 12 times


• In-House Group: Centrist Reform Alliance
• Born: February 1952, Hasumi (now part of Onan), Ochi, Shimane
• Education:
• Master's degree, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo)
• Doctor of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

• Career:
• Professional engineer
• Shimizu Corporation
• - Chief Researcher, Institute of Technology
• - Director, Space Development Office
• Visiting Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (now Japan Atomic Energy
• Visiting Fellow, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, USA
• Senior Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Science and Technology
• Minister of the Environment
• Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
• Chief Representative, Komeito
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology