(As of March 2025)
SHIGETOKU Kazuhiko
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Aichi 12th District (single-seat constituency), elected five times
- In-House Group: The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent
- Born: December 1970, Aichi
- Education:
- Aichi Prefectural Okazaki High School
- Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Master's degree, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, USA
- Career:
- Ministry of Home Affairs (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) (1994)
- Assigned to Yamagata, Aomori and Hiroshima Prefectures
- Fire and Disaster Management Agency
- First elected to the House of Representatives (Dec. 2012)
- Member, HR Standing Committee on National Security
- Member, HR Commission on the Constitution
- Chairperson, Policy Research Committee, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP)
- Chairperson, Federation of CDP Aichi Prefecture Branches
- Chairperson, Chokkan (speaking truth to power) no Kai policy Group
- Other:
- Worked as a staff member of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency during the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake; rescued a two-year-old boy from a landslide
- Launched festivals, NGOs, and fathers' associations throughout the country, as well as the Network of Public Officials Venturing Out into the Community (which has Over 2,000 members)
- The first HR Member to place the word "allergy" in Japanese law
