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Masatoshi Ishida

Politician

Masatoshi Ishida 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	AMasatoshi Ishida · ISHIDA Masatoshi · Isida Maszatosi · Masatoshi Ishida · Masatosi İsida · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Masatoshi Ishida · Исида, Масатоси · いしだまさとし · 石田真敏君 · 石田真敏				[sources]
Birth date	1952-04-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Kainan · Kainan, Wakayama				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Masatoshi				[sources]
Last name	Ishida				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.ishida-masatoshi.net				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6782738				[sources]
Position	Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (2018-2019) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University · Waseda University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-11	Last processed	2026-02-15	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

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

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2026-02-02

Japanese politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	-	-
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications	2018-10-02	2019-09-11

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,310

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,165

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

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 Members440

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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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,126

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,221

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-f5d9f2d5-7dcd-4b15-8efe-0a315741ad87 · jp-shu-2c73f641fad8769dbe9f48c4012a13ec5473fd97

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