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Yasukazu Hamada

PEP · Politician

Yasukazu Hamada is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AYasukazu Hamada · HAMADA Yasukazu · Hamada Jaszukazu · Jasukazu Hamada · Yasukazu Hamada · 6 more...				[sources]
Alias	HAMADA Yasukazu · Jasukazu Hamada · Yasukazu Hamada · Хамада, Ясукадзу · はまだやすかず · 5 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1955-10-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Futtsu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Yasukazu				[sources]
Last name	Hamada				[sources]
Political association	LDP · Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.office-hamada.jp				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1132836				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Deputy Director General of the Defense Agency (2003-2004) · Minister of Defense of Japan (2008-2009) · Minister of Defense of Japan (2022-2023) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Senshu University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-09	Last processed	2026-04-09	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Kōichi Hamada Close Associate	father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Defense of Japan	2008-09-24	2009-09-16

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,191

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories342,715

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,512

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Japanese House of Representatives Members466

Current members of the Japanese House of Representatives (Shūgiin), the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

Japan · Shūgiin

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata330,507

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions502,929

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-2dc09c386e89734f2d3afdfeeceb088afa1a65cf · jp-shu-d1db235157f3e9a47daf7b450fab47a68920756e · evpo-86330871-8024-425a-a362-909b6ffc67a3

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