(As of March 2025)
MAKI Yoshio
Chair, Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues, House of Representatives
Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Aichi 4th District (single-seat constituency), elected eight times
- In-House Group: The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent
- Born: January 1958, Nagoya, Aichi
- Education:
- Faculty of Humanities (philosophy), Sophia University (coursework toward a bachelor's degree)
- Career:
- Official Secretary to HR Member
- Staff member, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Headquarters
- State Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- Deputy Secretary-General, DPJ
- Deputy Chairperson, DPJ Diet Affairs Committee
- Next Cabinet Minister of state of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Environment
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Rules and Administration
- Director, HR Deliberative Council on Political Ethics
- Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Chair, HR Standing Committee on Environment
- Chair, HR Standing Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare
