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Ken Saitō

Politician

Ken Saitō 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	AKen Saito · Ken Saitō · SAITO Ken · Кэн Саито · كين سايتو · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ken Saito · Ken Saitou · Ken Saitō · SAITO Ken · Саито, Кэн · 6 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	さいとう健 · 斎藤健				[sources]
Birth date	1959-06-14				[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) · State government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ken				[sources]
Last name	Saitō				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.saito-ken.jp · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11679075				[sources]
Position	Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017-2018) · Minister of Justice (2022-2023) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan · Master's degree, Harvard University, USA · Tsukuba Üniversitesi Komaba Lisesi · University of Tokyo				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-11	Last processed	2025-12-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Chiba 7th 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
vice-governor of Saitama Prefecture	-	-

Data sources

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

Every Politician57,742

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,242

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories371,607

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata353,844

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,969

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-578a4f4c-2b1c-4661-af10-c5aa6ead899e · jp-shu-6494f052bf3721bcb29d9ddce738f48dcd96cd57

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