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Ichirō Ozawa

Politician

Ichirō Ozawa 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	Ichiro Ozawa · Ichirō Ozawa · Ičiró Ozawa · OZAWA Ichiro · Ozava Icsiró · 9 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ichiro Ozawa · Ichirou Ozawa · Ichirō Ozawa · Ičiró Ozawa · Ozawa Ichirō · 11 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	小泽一郎				[sources]
Birth date	1942-05-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Mizusawa (now Oshu), Iwate · Shitaya-ku				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ichirō				[sources]
Last name	Ozawa				[sources]
Political association	Centrist Reform Alliance · Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan · Democratic Party for the People · Democratic Party of Japan · Japan Renewal Party · 6 more...				[sources]
Website	www.ozawa-ichiro.jp · ozawa-ichiro.net · twitter.com · www.ozawa-ichiro.jp				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q459998				[sources]
Position	Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission (1985-1986) · Leader of the Democratic Party · Minister of Home Affairs (1985-1986) · Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Altıncı Bunkyō Ortaokulu · Faculty of Economics, Keio University · Koishikawa Secondary Education School · Oshu City Mizusawa Elementary School · Ōshū City Higashi-Mizusawa Junior High School · 2 more...				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-02	Last processed	2026-02-15	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Iwate 3rd District (single-seat constituency), elected 19 times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2026-02-02

Japanese politician (born 1942)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-01-18

Relationships

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

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,310

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Japanese House of Representatives Members440

Current members of the Japanese House of Representatives (Shūgiin), the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

Japan · Shūgiin

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,165

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,185

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,007

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: evpo-0a1e6b19-3a9d-4121-986d-8333eecd9499 · jp-shu-3f467b54b733a163946f3db315ee20d822d0f79e

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