SETO Takakazu

• State Minister for Reconstruction
• State Minister of Cabinet Office


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


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: 2 August 1965, Sakaide, Kagawa
• Education:
• College of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University (now Osaka Metropolitan University)
• Master’s degree, Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo)

• Career:
• Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
• - Senior Officer, Land Mobile Communications Division, Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau
• - Senior Research Officer, Secretarial Division, Minister's Secretariat
• On secondment
• - Postmaster, Yamaga Post Office, Kumamoto Prefecture
• - Director General, Police Administration Department, Iwate Prefectural Police Headquarters
• - Counsellor, Team in Charge of Assisting the Lives of Disaster Victims, Cabinet Office
• Director of Business Development, Innovation Business Group, Intel Co., Ltd.
• First elected to the House of Representatives (2012)
• Member, HR Standing Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare
• Member, HR Standing Committee on Financial Affairs
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance