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Akinori Eto

Politician

Akinori Eto 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	Akinori Eto · ETO Akinori · Акинори Это · أكينوري إيتو · اكينورى ايتو · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Akinori Eto · Это, Акинори · أكينوري إيتو · えとあきのり · 江渡聡徳君 · 2 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1955-10-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Towada · Towada, Aomori				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Akinori				[sources]
Last name	Eto				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.eto-akinori.jp · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q49999				[sources]
Position	Minister of Defense of Japan (2014-2014) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-)				[sources]
Education	College of Law, Nihon University · Graduate School of Law (public law), Nihon University · Nihon University · Nihon University (-1979)				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tohoku Bloc (proportional representation), elected nine times

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

Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	2017-11-01	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2017-10-22

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

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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

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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 OpenSanctions540,381

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,233

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-609751cb-012b-4856-9ab3-2cdea3977051 · jp-shu-fa0d042282607bddbac811955c283cc2d13e7f89

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