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Kaname Tajima

Politician

Kaname Tajima 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	AKaname Tajima · Kaname Tajima · TAJIMA Kaname · Канамэ Тадзима · 田嶋要				[sources]
Alias	Kaname Tajima · Тадзима, Канамэ · たじまかなめ · 田嶋要君 · 田嶋要				[sources]
Birth date	1961-09-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Nagoya · Nagoya, Aichi				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kaname				[sources]
Last name	Tajima				[sources]
Political association	Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan · Democratic Party · Democratic Party of Japan · Group of Independents · Party of Hope · 1 more...				[sources]
Website	www.k-tajima.net · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.k-tajima.net				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6360573				[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-)				[sources]
Education	Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka Senior High School · Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo · MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA · University of Tokyo				[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 Chiba 1st District (single-seat constituency), elected eight times

— 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
Member of the Shūgiin	2014-12-14	2017-09-28
member of the House of Representatives of Japan

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

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 Persons316,648

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

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

Source data IDs: evpo-7bc8c51c-b433-4ab0-85bd-fe5e8058cfc1 · jp-shu-3fc363422f05c77f8c4f78dedf934b94b6dd1038

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