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Minoru Kihara

Politician

Minoru Kihara 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	AMinoru Kihara · KIHARA Minoru · Minoru Kihara · Минору Кихара · مينورو كيهارا · 2 more...				[sources]
Other name	Minoru Kihara · Кихара, Минору · きはらみのる · 木原稔君 · 木原稔				[sources]
Birth date	1969-08-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Kumamoto · Kumamoto City, Kumamoto				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Minoru				[sources]
Last name	Kihara				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	kiharaminoru.jp · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11518220				[sources]
Position	Minister of Defense of Japan (2023-2024) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2014-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	School of Education, Waseda University · Waseda University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Kumamoto 1st District (single-seat constituency), elected six times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2025-10-13

Japanese politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	2017-11-01	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2021-10-31

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,430

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,059

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Japanese House of Representatives Members464

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

Japan · Shūgiin

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,033

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata350,162

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-186f912060673d8cfbeb02d69c70f44433a5d53e · evpo-a2d5922c-044d-4c14-91ab-e4fe5a1ac679

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