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Hideki Niwa

Politician

Hideki Niwa 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	AHideki Niwa · Hideki Niwa · NIWA Hideki · Хидэки Нива · 丹羽秀樹				[sources]
Alias	Hideki Niwa · Нива, Хидэки · にわひでき · 丹羽秀樹君 · 丹羽秀樹				[sources]
Birth date	1972-12-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Kasugai · Kasugai, Aichi				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Hideki				[sources]
Last name	Niwa				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.2wa.jp · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5752415				[sources]
Position	Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2021-)				[sources]
Education	College of Humanities, Tamagawa University · Tamagawa University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-02	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Chair, Special Committee for Regional Revitalization, Policies on Children, and Digital Society Promotion, House of Representatives

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

Japanese politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2021-10-31	2024-10-09

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,845

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,065

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

Every Politician57,893

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 OpenSanctions552,602

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-74a9c954-094b-4175-9550-d0894441493c · jp-shu-474b04becdcd7771383838f1efa045731e0092a4

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