(As of April 2026)
FUNADA Hajime
- Chair, Board of Information Oversight and Review, House of Representatives
- Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tochigi 1st District (single-seat constituency), elected 15 times
- In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
- Born: November 1953, Utsunomiya, Tochigi
- Education:
- Master's degree, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University
- Career:
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Management and Coordination
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education
- - Visited the US, Australia and New Zealand to observe their education systems
- Minister of State, Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency
- - Visited Europe to attend the Japan-EC Ministerial Meeting and OECD Economic Ministerial Council
- - Visited the US for Japan-US Economic Consultation
- Director, Foreign Affairs Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
- - Visited Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to study the situation after the Gulf War
- Director, Youth Division, LDP Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters
- Chairperson, LDP Finance Committee
- Acting Chairperson, LDP General Council
- Chairperson, LDP Research Commission to Promote Research and Establish a Nation of Innovative Science and Technology
- Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Consumer Issues
- Chairperson, LDP Headquarters for the Promotion of Revision to the Constitution
- Other:
- Commended by the House of Representatives for long service (25 years) as a Member of the National Diet in January 2008
