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Tetsuo Saito

Politician

Tetsuo Saito 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	ATetsuo Saito · SAITO Tetsuo · Szaitó Tecuo · Tecuo Saitó · Tetsuo Saito · 5 more...				[sources]
Other name	SAITO Tetsuo · Saitō Tetsuo · Tecuo Saitó · Tetsuo Saito · Tetsuo Saitou · 10 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	斉藤てつお · 齋藤鐵夫				[sources]
Birth date	1952-02-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Hasumi · Ohnan (formerly Hasumi), Ohchi, Shimane				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Tetsuo				[sources]
Last name	Saitō				[sources]
Political association	Komeito				[sources]
Website	www.saitotetsuo.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.saitotetsuo.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q926287				[sources]
Position	Chief Representative of Komeito (2024-) · Minister for the World Horticultural Exhibition Yokohama 2027 (2022-2024) · Minister in charge of Water Cycle Policy (2021-2024) · Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2021-2024) · Minister of the Environment (2008-2009) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Doctor of Engineering · Master's degree, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology · Tokyo Institute of Technology · 修道中学校 · 修道高等学校				[sources]
Religion	Soka Gakkai				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-05	Last processed	2025-11-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Hiroshima 3rd District (single-seat constituency), elected 11 times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2025-10-13

Japanese politician (born 1952)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-11-21

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	2014-12-14	2017-09-28
Minister in Charge of Water Cycle Policy

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories379,505

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,144

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,609

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,777

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: jp-shu-d447b2bd69f4efbfc79966d518e15fd5a9bf04ee · us-cia-japan-saito-tetsuo-minister-for-the-2027-world-horticultural-exposition-in-yokohama · us-cia-japan-saito-tetsuo-minister-of-land-infrastructure-transport-tourism · evpo-3fceb604-5025-4d3f-863b-aee42ee92a16 · us-cia-japan-saito-tetsuo-minister-in-charge-of-water-cycle-policy

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