Fumio Kishida is a Japanese politician, who is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Background
Kishida was born to a political family in Minami-ku, Hiroshima on 29 July 1957. His father and grandfather were former politicians who were lower house members, and also, former prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa is a distant relative of his.
Education
Kishida studied law at Waseda University and graduated in 1982.
Career
He served in Yasuo Fukuda"s cabinet as minister of state for Okinawa and northern territories affairs, science and technology policy, quality-of-life policy, and regulatory Reform. Political career
He served in the lower house seven times, representing the Hiroshima Number: 1.and Cabinet Junichiro Koizumi 2001 He was chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party"s Diet affairs committee until September 2012. In the Liberal Democratic Party, he is close to retired veteran Liberal Democratic Party politician Makoto Koga.
Kishida assumed the control of Koga"s faction in October 2012.
His most appointment in the Liberal Democratic Party was chairman of the headquarters for Japan"s economic revitalization. Ministerial career
Kishida was the minister of Okinawa affairs from 2007 to 2008, firstly in the Abe Cabinet and later in the Fukuda cabinet.
He was appointed state minister in charge of consumer affairs and food safety in the cabinet of then prime minister Yasuo Fukuda in 2008. Kishida was also state minister in charge of science and technology in the Fukuda cabinet.
Kishida was named foreign minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe on 26 December 2012.
Membership
He is a member of the House of Representatives and the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Democratic Party). After working at now-defunct Long-Term Cr Bank of Japan and then as a secretary to a member of the House of Representatives, Kishida was elected for the first time in July 1993. Like Shinzo Abe and most members of his Cabinet, Kishida is affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.