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Yuzuru TAKEUCHI

Date of Birth: June 25, 1958

Birth Place: Kyoto Prefecture

Chairperson, Policy Research Council of the KOMEITO

Member of the House of Representatives (Elected 5 times)

Constituency: Kinki PR bloc

Education
March 1983 Faculty of Law, Kyoto University
Career
2022

Chairperson, Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry

October 2021

Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HR) (6th)

September 2020

Chairperson, Policy Research Council of the KOMEITO

October 2018

Secretary-general on Tax Committee of the KOMEITO

April 2018

Director of the Committee on Financial Affairs

November 2017

Director of Budjet committee

November 2017

Main members of the taxation council by the ruling parties

October 2017

Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HR) (5th)

September 2016

Chairperson, Committee on Internal Affairs and Communication

October 2015

The State Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare

December 2014

Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HR) (4th)

September 2014

Director of the House Steering Committee

September 2014

The First Vice Chairperson on Diet Policy Committee of the KOMEITO

October 2013 Director of the Financial Affairs Committee, HR
December 2012 Parliamentary Secretary for Finance (Abe Cabinet)
December 2012 Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HR) (3rd)
October 2010 Director of the Financial Affairs Committee, HR
January 2010 Director of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Committee, HR
October 2009 Chief Representative, New Komeito Kyoto Prefectural Headquarters
August 2009 Director of the North Korean Abductions and Other Issues Committee, HR
August 2009 Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (2nd)
April 2003 Reelected as a Member of the Kyoto City Assembly
April 1999 Elected as a Member of the Kyoto City Assembly
July 1993 Elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (1st)
April 1983 Joined The Sanwa Bank Ltd. (current The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.)
Family
Wife, 2 children


Yuzuru Takeuchi was born on June 25, 1958, in Kyoto city, Japan.
In 1971, Mr.Takeuchi passed the entrance examination of St.Viator Rakusei Junior and Senior High School, one of the most prominent mission schools in Japan. When he was a first year student at the junior high school, he joined the school baseball club and up until the third year of the senior high school, he had been recognized as an outstanding player on his team. During his senior high school days, his team went on to play in the quarterfinal game of Kyoto prefecture.

In 1978 Mr.Takeuchi entered the law department of Kyoto University majoring in administrative law. He not only studied law, but also politics, history, sociology, literature, philosophy, economics, finance, science, and so on.

After graduation, Mr.Takeuchi joined The Sanwa Bank Ltd. (now The Mitsubishi Tokyo Ufj Bank Ltd.), as an executive trainee. He was engaged in various departments, for example: loans, analyzing the economic conditions, marketing, and large urban developments. In 1990, he took office as acting director of the department of large urban developments.

Mr.Takeuchi was first elected as a Member of the House of Representatives in 1993 from the First District of Kyoto Prefecture under a multi-seat electoral system. During his first term, he belonged to the standing committee on financial affairs. He was recognized as a promising and controversial statesman. However, in the general election in 1996, he failed to win a seat in the single-seat district.

In 1999 Mr.Takeuchi was elected as a member of the Kyoto City Assembly, Kamigyo District of Kyoto City. After reelection in 2003, he was appointed as the Chairperson to the Financial Affairs Committee. He has proposed many kinds of policies for Kyoto City and most of them have been implemented. He was a very important person in the Kyoto City Assembly.

In 2009, he was re-elected as a Member of the House of Representatives.
Thirteen years have passed since he lost his seat in the House of Representatives. Currently, he is the vice chairperson for the Diet policy committee, NEW KOMEITO. He belongs to the standing committee on financial affairs and the standing committee on land, infrastructure, transport and tourism committee.
Recently , he has been appointed as a director for the special committee on abductions by North Korea.



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