Curriculum Vitae

Present Title

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications


MURAKAMI Seiichiro
Date of Birth: May 11, 1952, Ehime Prefecture.Elected from Ehime Prefecture
Elected to the House of Representatives from Shikoku Block 13 times

[Brief personal history]
Mar. 1978
Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
Jul. 1986
First elected to the House of Representatives in the 38th general election
Dec. 1992
Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance (in the Miyazawa Reshuffled Cabinet)
Mar. 1993
Chair of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Ehime Prefectural Chapter
Sept. 1994
Chair of the Special Committee on Coal Measures, House of Representatives
Sept. 1997
Chair of the Finance Committee, House of Representatives
Dec. 2000
Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance (in the Second Mori Reshuffled Cabinet)
Jan. 2001
State Minister of Finance (in the Second Mori Reshuffled Cabinet (after reorganization of ministries))
May. 2001
State Minister of Finance (in the First Koizumi Cabinet)
Sept. 2004
Minister of State in charge of Administrative Reform, Special Zones for Structural Reform, and Regional Revitalization
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, Cabinet Office (in the Second Koizumi Reshuffled Cabinet)
Sept. 2005
Minister of State in charge of Administrative Reform, Special Zones for Structural Reform, and Regional Revitalization
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, Cabinet Office (in the Third Koizumi Cabinet)
Oct. 2007
Chair of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Special Committee on Maritime Transport and Shipbuilding
Oct. 2007
Chair of the Shikoku Bloc of the Liberal Democratic Party in both Houses of the Diet
Dec. 2009
Chair of the Administrative Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party
Dec. 2012
Chair of the Political Ethics Committee, House of Representatives
Oct. 2021
Elected to the House of Representatives in the 49th general election
Oct. 2024
Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (in the Ishiba Cabinet)
Elected to the House of Representatives in the 50th general election
Nov. 2024
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (in the Second Ishiba Cabinet)