Education
Waseda University; Seijo University.
中山 泰秀
Waseda University; Seijo University.
Mr Nakayama is the current State Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Japanese cabinet. Born in Osaka, Yasuhide Nakayama worked for advertising agency Dentsu on high-profile issues after graduating from the law faculty of Seijo University. He spent three years in France in his high school years.
He belongs to a family that counts among others:
His first-hand experience of Japanese politics goes back 15 years.
He has served as secretary to the Minister of Construction, secretary to the State Minister of the Management and Company-ordination Bureau, and as policy secretary for the former Minister of Defense and former Minister for the Environment, Yuriko Koike. Both Koike and Nakayama are affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, that advocates a return to militarism in Japan.
Nakayama, who after the university worked for advertising agency Dentsu on high-profile issues, is currently working as Assistant to President for Pasona Group Incorporated.(wwwpasonagroupcojp), a manpower company headquartered in his hometown Osaka, and until his re-election, he served as Senior Adviser to GR Japan (wwwgrjapancom), a government relations consultancy. Nakayama made a cameo appearance in the season finale of the game show I Survived a Japanese Game Show.
In the episode, Nakayama congratulated the final two contestants on behalf of the Japanese people for making it to the end of the competition, and thanked them for furthering the understanding of the Japanese culture.
His father Masaaki Nakayama, member of the House of Representatives
In past governments, Nakayama was a Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and served as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan for six years representing the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Democratic Party).