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Kōichirō Genba

Diplomat · Politician

Kōichirō Genba 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	GEMBA Koichiro · Genba Kóicsiró · Koichiro Genba · Koiçiro Genba · Kóičiró Genba · 11 more...				[sources]
Alias	Gemba Koichiro · Gemba Kōichirō · Genba Koichiro · Genba Kōichirō · Koichiro Gemba · 20 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1964-05-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Tamura · Tamura, Fukushima				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	g01748@shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
First name	Koichiro · Kōichirō				[sources]
Last name	Genba				[sources]
Political association	Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan · Democratic Party · Democratic Party of Japan · Group of Independents · Independent (The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent prior to assuming office as Vice-Speaker) · 4 more...				[sources]
Website	www.kgenba.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q58213				[sources]
Position	Minister for Foreign Affairs (2011-2012) · Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social Affairs (2010-2010) · Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy (2011-2011) · Minister of State for the New Public Commons (2010-2011) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Law, Sophia University · Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School · Sophia University (-1987) · The Matsushita Institute of Government and Management (1987-)				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Vice-Speaker of the House of Representatives

— 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
Minister of State for the New Public Commons	2010-06-08	2011-09-02

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,016

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,648

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

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

External databases

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Wikidata335,220

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,249

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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