FURUKAWA Yasushi

• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Elected: Kyushu Bloc (proportional representation), three times
• Born: July 1958, Karatsu, Saga
• Education:
• Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

• Career:
• Ministry of Home Affairs (Apr. 1982)
• Secretary to the Minister of Home Affairs (Sep. 1997)
• Governor of Saga Prefecture (Apr. 2003) (three consecutive terms)
• First elected to the House of Representatives (Dec. 2014);
• now in third consecutive term
• Deputy Chief Secretary, Research Commission on Persons and Children with Disabilities, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (Nov. 2015)
• Deputy Chief Secretary, LDP Research Commission on info-Communications Strategy (Oct. 2016)
• Head, Project Team on the Support for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, LDP Research Commission on Persons and Children with Disabilities (Mar. 2017)
• Deputy Director, LDP Agriculture and Forestry Division (Sep. 2017)
• Deputy Chief Secretary, LDP Special Committee on Depopulation (Mar. 2018)
• Chief Secretary, LDP Project Team to Preserve Rice Terrace (May 2018)
• Chief Secretary, LDP Research Commission on Local Government Administration (Jun. 2019)
• Deputy Director, LDP Women's Affairs Division (Oct. 2019)
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (Sep. 2020)
• Manager, LDP Research Commission on the Tax System (Nov. 2021)
• Chairperson, LDP Committee on Organizations Involved with Public Finance, Finance and Securities, Interest Group Policy Division, Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters
• Deputy Director, LDP Internal Affairs and Communications Division
• Vice President, LDP Central Institute of Politics
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism