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Mitsuhide Iwaki

Mitsuhide Iwaki
岩城 光英
Official portrait, 2015
Minister of Justice
In office
7 October 2015 – 3 August 2016
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Preceded byYōko Kamikawa
Succeeded byKatsutoshi Kaneda
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(Political affairs, House of Councillors)
In office
27 August 2007 – 24 September 2008
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded bySeiji Suzuki
Succeeded byYoshitada Konoike
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
26 July 1998 – 25 July 2016
Preceded byShizuo Sato
Succeeded byTeruhiko Mashiko
ConstituencyFukushima at-large
Mayor of Iwaki
In office
1990–1997
Member of the Fukushima Prefectural Assembly
In office
1986–1990
ConstituencyIwaki City
Member of the Iwaki City Assembly
In office
1980–1986
Personal details
Born (1949-12-04) 4 December 1949 (age 75)
Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Alma materSophia University

Mitsuhide Iwaki (岩城 光英, Iwaki Mitsuhide, born 4 December 1949) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the National Diet (national legislature). A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Sophia University with a B.L., he worked at Suntory and served in the city assembly of Iwaki for two terms since 1980, in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture for two terms from 1986 and as mayor of Iwaki for two terms from 1990. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998.

Iwaki was named Minister of Justice in Shinzo Abe cabinet on 7 October 2015.

Conservative views

Iwaki is a member of the Sinseiren parliamentary group (fundamentalist Shinto).

On 18 October 2015, a few days after joining Shinzo Abe's cabinet, Iwaki visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Two cabinet ministers visit Yasukuni shrine" (Japan Times 2015/10/18)
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Justice
2015–2016
Succeeded by