(As of March 2025)
HAYASHI Yoshimasa
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Yamaguchi 3rd District (single-seat constituency), elected twice
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Born: 1961
- Education:
- Shimonoseki-Nishi High School, Japan
- Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan (class of 1984)
- Master in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
- Career:
- Member, House of Councillors (HC) (five terms; representing Yamaguchi)
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance
- State Minister of Cabinet Office
- Minister of Defense
- Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
- Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
- Yamaguchi Gohdoh Gas Co., Ltd.
- Moved to the US (1991)
- Co-authored legislation for the Mansfield Fellowship Program as a congressional intern at the office of US Senator William Roth
- First elected to the House of Councillors (1995)
- Chairman, HC Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense
- Chairman, HC Special Committee on Official Development Assistance and Related Matters
- Chairman, HC Special Committee on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
- Chairman, HC Commission on the Constitution
- Chief Secretary, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- Chairperson, LDP Policy Board in the HC
- Acting Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
- Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Strategy
- Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Intellectual Property Strategy
- Chairperson, LDP Subcommittee, Research Commission on the Tax System
- First elected to the House of Representatives (2021)
