YOSHINO Masayoshi

• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Elected: Fukushima 5th District (single-seat constituency), eight times
• Born: August 1948, Iwaki, Fukushima
• Education:
• School of Commerce, Waseda University

• Career:
• Member, Fukushima Prefectural Assembly (three terms) (Apr. 1982)
• President, the Board of Directors, Social Welfare Corporation (Aug. 1996)
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Nov. 2005)
• State Minister of the Environment (Aug. 2008)
• Minister for Reconstruction (Apr. 2017)
• Deputy Director, Health, Labour and Welfare Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (Nov. 2003)
• Deputy Director, LDP Agriculture and Forestry Division (Nov. 2003)
• Deputy Director, LDP Fisheries Division (Nov. 2003)
• Director, LDP Judicial Affairs Division (Oct. 2006)
• Member, LDP Policy Research Council (Sep. 2007)
• Acting Chairperson, LDP Research Commission on Power Plants Location and Atomic Energy (Oct. 2007)
• Director, LDP Environment Division (Oct. 2011)
• Chairperson, LDP Forestry Policy Subcommittee, Agriculture and Forestry (Jan. 2013)
• Chairperson, Subcommittee on Corporate Accounting, LDP Research Commission on the Finance and Banking Systems (Apr. 2013)
• Director, LDP Local Organizations and Local Assembly Members Division, Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters (Oct. 2013)
• Deputy Chairperson, LDP Special Committee for the Promotion of Mountain Villages (Nov. 2013)
• Member, LDP Party Ethics Committee (Nov. 2015)
• Acting Chairperson, LDP Headquarters for Accelerating Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Dec. 2018)
• Director, Standing Committee on Judicial Affairs, House of Representatives (HR) (Feb. 2005)
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare (Oct. 2006)
• Chair, Subcommittee for Considering Bills to Amend Part of the Law on Transplant of Organs, HR Standing Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare (Oct. 2007)
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Rules and Administration (Dec. 2012)
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Environment (Dec. 2012)
• Chair, HR Special Committee for Investigation of Nuclear Power Issues (Sep. 2014)
• Chair, HR Special Committee on Reconstruction after Great East Japan Earthquake (Sep. 2016)