Profile of State Minister for Foreign Affairs TAKEI Shunsuke

Mr. TAKEI Shunsuke

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
Member of the House of Representatives
Proportional Representation Block for Kyushu (elected four times)

Biography

Date	Curriculum Vitae
March 29, 1975	Born in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture
March 1997	Graduated from Faculty of Letters, Chuo University
April 1997	Joined Miyazaki Kotsu Co., Ltd.
September 2005	Completed Master’s program at the Graduate School of Public Management, Waseda University
September 2005	Joined Rakuten, Inc.
April 2007	Elected to the Miyazaki Prefectural Assembly
December 2011	Leader, Branch of the Liberal Democratic Party in Miyazaki 1st Electoral District
December 2012	Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time (46th General Election)
December 2014	Reelected to the House of Representatives (47th General Election, second term)
August 2016	Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Second Reshuffled Third Abe Cabinet)
October 2017	Reelected to the House of Representatives (48th General Election, third term)
May 2018	Attended the Inauguration Ceremony of the President of the Republic of Costa Rica as an Ambassador on Special Mission
June 2019	Attended the Democracy Day Celebration of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a Special Envoy of the Prime Minister
October 2021	Reelected to the House of Representatives (49th General Election, fourth term)
November 2021 - August 2022	Deputy Chairperson, Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party
August 2022	State Minister for Foreign Affairs (Reshuffled Second Kishida Cabinet)