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Shū Sakurai

Politician

Shū Sakurai 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	AShu Sakurai · SAKURAI Shu · Shū Sakurai · Сю Сакураи · 桜井周				[sources]
Alias	Shu Sakurai · Shuu Sakurai · Shū Sakurai · Сакураи, Сю · さくらいしゅう · 2 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	桜井シュウ				[sources]
Birth date	1970-08-16				[sources]
Place of birth	Itami				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Shū				[sources]
Last name	Sakurai				[sources]
Political association	The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent				[sources]
Website	sakuraishu.com · www.sakuraishu.net · facebook.com · sakuraishu.net · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q41770931				[sources]
Position	Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · local assemblyperson of Japan (2011-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-)				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan · Hyogo Prefectural Itami High School, Japan · Kyoto University (-1994) · Master's degree, Brown University, USA · Master's degree, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan				[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 Hyogo 6th District (single-seat constituency), elected three 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
Member of the Shūgiin	2017-11-01	-
local assemblyperson of Japan	2011

Data sources

Every Politician57,742

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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 Persons277,144

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,040

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,757

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,743

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-97b7918a-1db9-42a4-8ec6-da19ed18a9b1 · jp-shu-d624d53cab895d1b97a99a285b36b9c03c02cde8

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