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Seiji Kihara

Politician

Seiji 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	ASeiji Kihara · KIHARA Seiji · Kihara Szeidzsi · Seidži Kihara · Seiji Kihara · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Seiji Kihara · Кихара, Сэидзи · きはらせいじ · 木原誠二君 · 木原誠二 · 2 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	木原せいじ				[sources]
Birth date	1970-06-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Shinjuku, Tokyo · Tokyo				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Seiji				[sources]
Last name	Kihara				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.kiharaseiji.com · kiharaseiji.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11518222				[sources]
Position	Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-)				[sources]
Education	Bachelor of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan · London School of Economics and Political Science · MSc in Public Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK · Musashi Junior & Senior High School · University of Tokyo				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tokyo 20th 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

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Masahiro Kihara Close Associate	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2021-10-31	2024-10-09
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	-

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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 Members465

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

Japan · Shūgiin

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,845

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,065

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,602

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-7f3c38cbf525fec07f1291ee0faf10108fe067e5 · evpo-305c8225-f612-46d4-b279-ee3adf3eedb6

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