(As of October 2023)
TAKAGAI Emiko
- Chair, Special Committee on Reconstruction after Great East Japan Earthquake, House of Representatives
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Elected: Chugoku Bloc (proportional representation), once
- Born: December 1963, Kami, Kami-gun, Miyagi
- Education:
- Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (coursework toward the second half of a doctoral degree program)
- Career:
- Member, House of Councillors (HC) (two terms)
- Public health nurse
- Nurse
- Ministry's Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
- Technical Official, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
- Executive Officer, Japanese Nursing Association
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- State Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- Director, Women's Affairs Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Director, LDP Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Division
- Chair, HC Standing Committee on Education, Culture and Science