(As of March 2025)
FUNADA Hajime
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tochigi 1st District (single-seat constituency), elected 14 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 Internal Affairs and Communications
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education
- Minister of State, Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency
- Visited the USA, Australia and New Zealand to observe the education system as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education
- Visited Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to inspect the situation after the Gulf War as Director of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Foreign Affairs Division
- Visited Europe for the EC-Japan Ministerial Meeting and the OECD Economic Ministerial Council as Minister of State, Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency
- Visited the USA for Japan-US Economic Talks
- Director, LDP Youth Division
- 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 of the Constitution
- Other:
- Commended by the House of Representatives for long service (25 years) as a Member of the National Diet in January 2008
