Ryosei Akazawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, representing the Tottori 2nd district in Tottori Prefecture.
12 Facts About Ryosei Akazawa
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Ryosei Akazawa's great-grandfather, Kohei, was a samurai who served the Hachisuka Clan, the Lords of Tokushima, and later became an industrialist.
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Ryosei Akazawa held the position of Minister for Home Affairs in Hayato Ikeda's cabinet.
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Ryosei Akazawa grew up in Bunkyo, Tokyo, and attended the Junior and Senior High School at Komaba.
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Ryosei Akazawa went on to study law at UTokyo, following in his grandfather's footsteps.
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Ryosei Akazawa was working at the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau at the time, and his team was directly responsible for handling the aftermath of the accident.
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Ryosei Akazawa earned an MBA from Cornell University in the United States in 1991.
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Ryosei Akazawa was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the 2005 Japanese general election where he was one of the so-called "Koizumi Children" elected amid the popularity of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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Ryosei Akazawa was re-elected in the 2009 general election and the 2012 general election, and every election since.
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Ryosei Akazawa gained some notoriety in August 2011 after berating Economy Minister Banri Kaieda for twenty minutes on the floor of the Diet over the ministry's handling of the Fukushima disaster, ultimately bringing Kaieda to tears.
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Ever since he was first elected, Ryosei Akazawa has been known as the closest aide to Prime Minister Ishiba, who is elected from the other constituency in Tottori prefecture.
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Ryosei Akazawa refers to himself as Premier Ishiba's left-hand person, explaining on his post on X that calling himself the Prime Minister's right-hand would feel too arrogant, while aide would sound as though he were the premier's brain.