YAMAGUCHI Shunichi

• Chair, Standing Committee on Rules and Administration, House of Representatives


• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tokushima 2nd District (single-seat constituency), elected 13 times


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: February 1950, Ikedacho, Miyoshi, Tokushima
• Education:
• College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
• Studied at Sorbonne University, France

• Career:
• Member, Tokushima Prefectural Assembly, 1975 (four consective terms from 1975)
• First elected to the House of Representatives (1990)
• President, Japan Forest Conservation Association
• Chairman, Tokushima Prefecture Forest Conservation and Forest Road Association
• President, Tokushima Ikuseikai Social Welfare Corporation
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
• State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
• Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
• State Minister of Finance
• Minister of State for Special Missions
• Chairperson, Federation of Tokushima Prefecture Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Branches
• Director, LDP Environment Division
• Director, LDP Communication Division
• Chairperson, LDP National Vision Project Headquarters
• Senior Deputy Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
• Member, LDP General Council
• Chairperson, LDP Special Committee on Depopulation
• Director, LDP Publicity Division
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Financial Affairs
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Audit and Oversight of Administration
• Chair, HR Special Committee for Regional Revitalization
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Rules and Administration

• Other:
• Commended by the House of Representatives for long service (25 years) as a Member of the National Diet in February 2015