12 Facts About Sumio Mabuchi

Sumio Mabuchi is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Sumio Mabuchi holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, which he received from Yokohama National University in March 1984.

Until 2000, Sumio Mabuchi worked in private sector and became director of the firm he was working for at age 32.

Sumio Mabuchi was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 after an unsuccessful run in 2000.

Sumio Mabuchi was appointed senior vice minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism in September 2009.

On 17 September 2010, Sumio Mabuchi was named as the new minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism in the reshuffled Naoto Kan cabinet.

Sumio Mabuchi left prime minister Kan's cabinet on 14 January 2011, after the then-opposition Liberal Democratic Party passed a censure motion against him following the leaking of Japanese Coast Guard footage of the 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident.

Sumio Mabuchi continued to hold his seat until he was narrowly defeated in the 2017 general election.

Sumio Mabuchi had the highest ratio of margin of defeat among all defeated candidates in the election.

Sumio Mabuchi returned to the House in February 2019 after the resignation of Shinji Tarutoko, who was contesting the Osaka 12th district by-election.

Sumio Mabuchi is a bodybuilder, and has been nicknamed "The Terminator".

Sumio Mabuchi is married and has six children, five of whom are girls.