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Kazuo Shii

Politician

Kazuo Shii 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	AKazuo Shii · Kazuo Shii · Kazuo Šii · SHII Kazuo · Sii Kazuo · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Kazuo Shii · Kazuo Šii · Shii Kazuo · Кадзуо Сии · Сии, Кадзуо · 7 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Shii				[sources]
Birth date	1954-07-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Yotsukaido, Chiba · Yotsukaidō-shi				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kazuo				[sources]
Last name	Shii				[sources]
Political association	Japanese Communist Party				[sources]
Website	www.shii.gr.jp · twitter.com · www.shii.gr.jp				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q337507				[sources]
Position	Executive Committee Chair of the Japanese Communist Party · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan				[sources]
Education	Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo (1979) · University of Tokyo				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-08	Last processed	2025-12-08	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Minami Kanto Bloc (proportional representation), elected 11 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
Akiyoshi Shii Politician	father	-	-
Shigeno Shii Close Associate	mother	-	-

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

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

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 Politically Exposed Persons276,823

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata386,636

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions516,411

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-963026c8ab11ffbe10e9113b76f2bd0b21fd725b · evpo-4639d74a-4da0-4dde-afe8-83f395326100

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