YAMASHITA Takashi

• Minister of Justice
• Minister of State for Gender Equality
• Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment
• Minister in charge of Legal System Review and Reform


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


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: September 1965, Takamatsu, Kagawa
• Education:
• Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Columbia Law School, Columbia University, USA

• Career:
• Attorney
• Public prosecutor
• First Secretary, Embassy of Japan, USA
• Senior Attorney for International Affairs, Ministry of Justice
• Lecturer, Keio University
• Bar examiner
• Minister of Justice
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice
• State Minister of Cabinet Office
• Chief Secretary, Headquarters for the Realization of Revision of the Constitution, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Intellectual Property Strategy
• Head, Project Team for the Proper Administration of Immigration and Residence and the Acceptance of Foreign Nationals, LDP Headquarters for Foreign Nationals Policy
• Deputy Chairperson, Special Mission Committee on National Security and Land Act, LDP
• Deputy Secretary-General, LDP
• Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
• Deputy Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Budget
• Director, HR Commission on the Constitution
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Judicial Affairs
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Cabinet