(As of December 2023)
SAKAMOTO Tetsushi
- Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Elected: Kumamoto 3rd District (single-seat constituency), seven times
- Born: November 1950, Ozu, Kikuchi, Kumamoto
- Education:
- Faculty of Law, Chuo University
- Career:
- Reporter, Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun (Kumamoto daily newspaper)
- Member, Kumamoto Prefectural Assembly (elected four times)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
- State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications;
- State Minister of Cabinet Office
- Minister of State for Special Missions
- Deputy Chairperson, Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Acting Director, LDP Internal Affairs and Communications Division
- Chairperson, LDP Subcommittee on Vegetables, Fruit Trees and Field Crops
- Chairperson, LDP Subcommittee on Livestock and Dairy Policy
- Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
- Manager, LDP Research Commission on the Tax System
- Director, LDP Local Organizations and Local Assembly Members Division
- Chair, Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, House of Representatives (HR)
- Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Internal Affairs and Communications
- Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Budget
- Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries