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Yasushi Hosaka

Politician

Yasushi Hosaka 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	AYasushi Hosaka · HOSAKA Yasushi · Yasushi Hosaka · Ясуси Хосака · 穂坂泰 · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Yasushi Hosaka · Хосака, Ясуси · ほさかやすし · 穂坂泰君 · 穂坂泰 · 2 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1974-02-17				[sources]
Place of birth	Shiki · Shiki, Saitama				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Yasushi				[sources]
Last name	Hosaka				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	hosakayasushi.com · facebook.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q41770690				[sources]
Position	Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · local assemblyperson of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-) · 外務大臣政務官 (2024-2024)				[sources]
Education	Aoyama Gakuin University · College of Science and Engineering (industrial and systems engineering), Aoyama Gakuin University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-17	Last processed	2025-12-17	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Saitama 4th District (single-seat constituency), elected three times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2025-11-02

Japanese politician

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

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Kunio Hosaka Politician	child · father	-	-

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 Shūgiin

Data sources

Every Politician57,736

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 Categories384,968

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,004

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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Wikidata353,666

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions553,228

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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