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Ryosei Akazawa
- Japanese: 赤澤 亮正
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Cabinet of Japan · Liberal Democratic Party
- In office since February 2026
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Source: commons.wikimedia.org, checked (+1 more)Current roles
- Cabinet of Japan · since February 18, 2026 · Cabinet portfolio list: Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; Minister in charge of the Response to the Economic Impact Caused by the Nuclear Accident; Minister in charge of Green Transformation; Minister in charge of Industrial Competitiveness; Minister in charge of Securing the Stability of Critical Goods in Response to the Situation in the Middle East; Minister in charge of the Social Implementation of AI Transformation (AX); Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation. In the same post since the cabinet formed on 2026-02-18 (reshuffle of 2026-09-17 did not change it) Source: japan.kantei.go.jp, checked (+1 more)
- Japanese: 衆議院議員 House of Representatives · Group: 自由民主党・無所属の会 Source: shugiin.go.jp, checked (+1 more)
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- commons.wikimedia.org · checked photo: [world:jp-national] Wikimedia Commons file page via Wikidata P18, licence and author from the Commons API (imageinfo/extmetadata), read 2026-10-12. For: Ryosei Akazawa
- shugiin.go.jp · checked Members' names and affiliation from the House of Representatives roster (議員一覧, as of 2026-09-28) and House of Councillors roster (as of 2026-10-12); English names and Wikidata ids from Wikidata SPARQL matched on the official Japanese name and kana reading (official sites publish no English names for members), read 2026-10-12. Fallback: Wikidata, because neither house publishes English names of members. Ministers, Speakers and Presidents use the English form on the official English site. For: Ryosei Akazawa
- sangiin.go.jp · checked Official member rosters of the House of Representatives (as of 2026-09-28) and the House of Councillors (as of 2026-10-12), read 2026-10-12: official Japanese names of members. For: Ryosei Akazawa in Japanese
- japan.kantei.go.jp · checked Prime Minister's Office of Japan, List of Ministers, The Takaichi Reshuffled Cabinet (inaugurated 2026-09-17), read 2026-10-12: holder and primary portfolio confirmed; holders kept from the cabinet of 2026-02-18 cross-checked against japan.kantei.go.jp/105/meibo_a/daijin/index.html. For: Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
- sangiin.go.jp · checked Current terms from the House of Representatives roster (shugiin.go.jp 議員一覧, as of 2026-09-28), House of Councillors roster (sangiin.go.jp, as of 2026-10-12) with group and term-expiry date, Cabinet (japan.kantei.go.jp/105/meibo/daijin/index.html, inaugurated 2026-09-17; former list /105/meibo_a/ inaugurated 2026-02-18), Speakers (shugiin.go.jp English 'Officers of the House', as of 2026-10-05), House of Councillors officers (sangiin.go.jp yakuin, 2026-10-12), Supreme Court justices (courts.go.jp 最高裁判所の裁判官), Emperor (kunaicho.go.jp). Member start dates are left empty because the rosters do not give them; party is the member's in-house group mapped to its party (groups mixing party and non-party members are mapped to the party). Read 2026-10-12. For: Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Member of the House of Representatives, Tottori 2nd District
- shugiin.go.jp · checked House of Representatives, 会派名及び会派別所属議員数, as of 2026-09-28, read 2026-10-12: full official name of the in-house group in term.note (was the roster abbreviation); group totals match the stored members (464 + 1 vacancy; 247 + 1 vacancy). For: Member of the House of Representatives, Tottori 2nd District
- shugiin.go.jp · checked Official Japanese names from the National Diet, Cabinet, Courts and party sites (shugiin.go.jp, sangiin.go.jp, kantei.go.jp, courts.go.jp), read 2026-10-12: Japanese official names of authorities, offices and parties. For: Member of the House of Representatives in Japanese