Profile of Minister of International Trade and Industry Mitsuo Horiuchi

Mitsuo Horiuchi

November 1997

Born: January 1, 1930
1952 Graduated from Keio University, Degree in Economics
1962 President, Fuji Kyuko Co., Ltd. (Chairman, Fuji Kyuko Co., Ltd., in 1990)
1976 First elected to the House of Representatives
1980 Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Administrative Management Agency
1985 Director-General, Research Bureau, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
1986 Chairman of the Committee on Social and Labour Affairs, the House of Representative
1989 Minister of Labour
1995 Director-General, Election Bureau, LDP
1996 Chairman, Research Commission on Economics and Commodity Prices, LDP

Chairman, Deregulation Committee, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, LDP
1997 Presiding Judge, Judge Impeachment Court

Minister of International Trade and Industry

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