
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)