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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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