Masahiko Shibayama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Masahiko Shibayama

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1965

Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About Masahiko Shibayama

  • Masahiko Shibayama (?? ??, Shibayama Masahiko, born December 5, 1965) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
  • Extreme right.
  • A member of the Anti free-speech working group. He was born in Nagoya, Aichi and grew up in Saitama Prefecture.
  • He graduated from the University of Tokyo and joined Sumitomo Real Estate in 1990, but resigned thereafter to study for the Japanese bar examination, which he passed in 1998.
  • In 2000, he was admitted as an attorney and joined the Toranomon Chuo Law Firm in Tokyo.He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2004, in a special election in Saitama to replace Masanori Arai, who had been arrested for campaign finance violations.
  • He was re-elected the following year in the Japanese general election.
  • In 2008, he was named Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and maintained this post under the cabinet of Taro Aso.Shibayama lost his Saitama seat to a DPJ candidate in the 2009 general election, but picked up a Kanto bloc seat and remained a member of the House of Representatives.
  • After the LDP returned to power in the 2012 general election, he was named Senior Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications in the second Shinzo Abe cabinet.
  • He also serves as a "special advisor" to the prime minister, acting as a spokesman for the Abe government with regard to its fiscal stimulus policies, and argued in 2016 that "doubling the number of foreign workers [in Japan] cannot be avoided in this global market situation."Shibayama is married and has one daughter.

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