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Itsunori Onodera

Politician

Itsunori Onodera 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	Icunori Onodera · Itsunori Onodera · ONODERA Itsunori · Onodera Icunori · İtsunori Onodera · 8 more...				[sources]
Alias	Icunori Onodera · Itsunori Onodera · Іцунорі Онодера · Онодэра, Ицунори · おのでらいつのり · 3 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1960-05-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Kesennuma · Kesennuma, Miyagi				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Itsunori				[sources]
Last name	Onodera				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.itsunori.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q49969				[sources]
Position	Minister of Defense of Japan · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Fisheries (marine environmental science and technology), Tokyo University of Fisheries · Master's degree, Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo · Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology · University of Tokyo				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Miyagi 5th District (single-seat constituency), elected nine times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2025-10-13

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-02-11

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Defense of Japan	2012-12-26	2014-09-03

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,578

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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

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

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

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