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Seiji Maehara

PEP · Politician

Seiji Maehara 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	MAEHARA Seiji · Maehara Szeidzsi · Seidži Maehara · Seiji Maehara · Σέιτζι Μαεχάρα · 9 more...				[sources]
Alias	Seidži Maehara · Seiji Maehara · Маэхара, Сэйдзи · سيجي مايهارا · まえはらせいじ · 3 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	まえはら誠司				[sources]
Birth date	1962-04-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Kyoto				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Seiji				[sources]
Last name	Maehara				[sources]
Political association	Association for Realizing Free Education · Democratic Party · Democratic Party For the People · Democratic Party of Japan · JIP · 2 more...				[sources]
Website	www.maehara21.com · twitter.com · www.maehara21.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q132280				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Leader of the Democratic Party (2005-2006) · Leader of the Democratic Party (2017-2017) · Minister for Foreign Affairs (2010-2011) · Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2009-2010) · Minister of State for Disaster Management (2009-2010) · 10 more...				[sources]
Education	Kyoto University · The Matsushita Institute of Government and Management				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-25	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Japanese politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of State for Space Policy	2012-10-01	2012-12-26

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories345,378

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons278,406

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions519,962

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata331,707

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-ed6d715a08c3e29ce714bfce08edde1caf24d65f · evpo-057f0268-8566-4f5a-8087-302b6ce53339 · jp-shu-38cb9a10b41170e566a620dc62330076e82e3238

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