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Takuya Hirai

Politician

Takuya Hirai 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	ATakuya Hirai · HIRAI Takuya · Takuya Hirai · Такуя Хираи · 平井卓也 · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Hirai Takuya · Takuya Hirai · Хираи, Такуя · ひらいたくや · 平井卓也 · 3 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ひらいたくや · 平井たくや				[sources]
Birth date	1958-01-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Takamatsu · Takamatsu, Kagawa				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Takuya				[sources]
Last name	Hirai				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com · www.hirataku.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7678622				[sources]
Position	Minister for Digital Transformation (2021-2021) · Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy (2020-2021) · Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy (2018-2019) · Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System (2020-2021) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University · Sophia University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-11	Last processed	2025-12-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Shikoku Bloc (proportional representation), elected nine 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
Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System	2020-09-16	2021-09-01

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,968

Category-based imports 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

Every Politician57,736

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 Persons276,004

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions553,228

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,666

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-f1ab4d015f377f85a062e8240afd58fcc8fbb5e4 · evpo-f1e90de1-4585-4b18-8ed5-91485c9baef3

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