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Liberal Democratic Party Exhibition Industry Parliamentary Group As of April 15, 2019 Liberal Democratic Party Exhibition Industry Parliamentary Group As of April 15, 2019 Ｓｕｐｒｅｍｅ Ａｄｖｉｓｅｒ Ａｄｖｉｓｅｒ Taro Aso (R) Fumio Kishida (R) Toshimitsu Motegi (R) Motoo Hayashi (R) Toshiaki Endo (R) Taro Kono (R) (Fukuoka) (Hiroshima) (Tochigi) (Chiba) (Yamagata) (Kanagawa) Deputy Prime Minister Chairman, Policy Research Minister for Economic Minister for Foreign Council, LDP and Fiscal Policy Affairs Ｐｒｅｓｉｄｅｎｔ Ｖｉｃｅ Ｐｒｅｓｉｄｅｎｔ Koichi Hagiuda (R) Seigo Kitamura (R) Yoko Kamikawa (R) Akira Sato (R) Akira Amari (R) (Tokyo) (Nagasaki) (Shizuoka) (Osaka) (Kanagawa) State Minister of Cabinet Office Ｃｈｉｅｆ Ｓｅｃｒｅｔａｒｙ Ｓｅｃｒｅｔａｒｙ Kentaro Sonoura (R) Kenji Harada (R) Daishiro Yamagiwa (R) Tsukasa Akimoto (R) Hideki Makihara (R) (Chiba) (Osaka) (Kanagawa) (Tokyo) (Saitama) Special Adviser to the Prime State Minister of Defense State Minister of the Environment Minister State Minister of Cabinet Office State Minister of Cabinet Office Ｓｅｃｒｅｔａｒｙ Ｄｅｐｕｔｙ Ｓｅｃｒｅｔａｒｙ-Ｇｅｎｅｒａｌ -Ｇｅｎｅｒａｌ Hiroyoshi Sasagawa (R) Toru Ishizaki Yoshihiko Isozaki Shinichi Nakatani Yoshiaki Harada (R) Masatoshi Ishida (R) Satsuki Katayama (C) (Gunma) (R) (Niigata) (C) (Kagawa) (R) (Yamanashi) (Fukuoka) (Wakayama) Minister of State for State Minister of Economy, Minister of Minister for Internal Regional Trade and Industry Environment Affairs and Revitalization State Minister of Cabinet Office Communications Junzo Yamamoto (C) Toshiko Abe (R) Minoru Kiuchi (R) Yoshihiro Seki (R) Kenichirou Ueno Hiroshi Hiraguchi (R) Yukari Sato (R) Hiroshi Ando (R) (Ehime) (Okayama) (Shizuoka) (Hyogo) (R) (Shiga) (Hiroshima) (Osaka) (Kyoto) Chairperson of the State Minister State Minister State Minister of Economy, State Minister State Minister of Justice State Minister Parliamentary Vice- National Public Safety for Foreign Affairs of the Environment Trade and Industry of Finance for Internal Affairs Minister of Cabinet Commission and Communications Office State Minister of Parliamentary Vice- Cabinet Office Minister for １／２ Reconstruction Hideo Onishi (R) Takaaki Katsumata (R) Shozo Kudo (R) Kiyoto Tsuji (R) Hiroshi Ueno (R) Masashi Adachi (C) Hirofumi Takinami (C) Ichiro Aizawa (R) (Tokyo) (Shizuoka) (Aichi) (Tokyo) (Gunma) Parliamentary Vice-Minister (Fukui) (Okayama) Parliamentary Vice- Parliamentary Vice- Parliamentary Vice- Parliamentary Vice- Parliamentary Vice- of Land, Infrastructure, Parliamentary Vice-Minister Minister for Internal Minister of the Minister of Land, Minister for Foreign Minister of Health, Transport and Tourism of Economy, Affairs and Environment Infrastructure, Affairs Labour and Welfare Parliamentary Vice-Minister Trade and Industry Communications Transport and Tourism of Cabinet Office Takeo Kawamura (R) Yasukazu Hamada (R) Naokazu Takemoto (R) Katsuei Hirasawa (R) Asahiko Mihara (R) Tsuyoshi Takagi (R) Jun Matsumoto (R) Kenya Akiba (R) Shintaro Ito (R) (Yamaguchi) (Chiba) (Osaka) (Tokyo) (Fukuoka) (Fukui) (Kanagawa) (Miyagi) (Miyagi) Tomomi Inada (R) Kosaburo Nishime Masaaki Taira (R) Yasuhide Nakayama (R) Nobuhide Minorikawa (R) Ichiro Miyashita (R) Yoshitami Kameoka (R) Tsutomu Tomioka (R) Yohei Matsumoto (R) (Fukui) (R) (Okinawa) (Tokyo) (Osaka) (Akita) (Nagano) (Fukushima) (Nagasaki) (Tokyo) Yoichi Anami (R) Toshiro Ino (R) Takahiro Inoue (R) Keitaro Ono (R) Masanobu Ogura (R) Makoto Oniki (R) Saichi Kamiyama (R) Takayuki Kobayashi (R) Hajime Sasaki (R) (Oita) (Gunma) (Fukuoka) (Kagawa) (Tokyo) (Fukuoka) (Saitama) (Chiba) (Ishikawa) Nobuhide Takemura (R) Hiroaki Tabata (R) Jun Tsushima (R) Yasumasa Nagasaka (R) Yukinori Nemoto (R) Atsushi Nonaka (R) Tatsuo Fukuda (R) Hisayuki Fujii (R) Tsuyoshi Hoshino (R) (Shiga) (Toyama) (Aomori) (Aichi) (Aichi) (Saitama) (Gunma) (Hyogo) (Kanagawa) Kenichi Hosoda (R) Noriko Horiuchi (R) Hideki Miyauchi (R) Noriko Miyagawa (R) Hiroyuki Miyazawa (R) Shunsuke Mutai (R) Hideki Murai (R) Noboru Kamitani (R) Tomu Tanigawa (R) Jiro Hatoyama (R) (Niigata) (Yamanashi) (Fukuoka) (Yamanashi) (Shizuoka) (Nagano) (Saitama) (Osaka) (Osaka) (Fukuoka) Hidehiro Mitani (R) Hirohiko Izumida (R) Syunpei Kaneko (R) Jiro Kimura (R) Yosuke Tsuruho (C) Masaharu Nakagawa Satoshi Ninoyu (C) Shinpei Matsushita (C) Kiyoshi Ejima (C) Ichiro Tsukada (C) (Hokaido) (Niigata) (Gifu) (Aomori) (Wakayama) (C) (Tokyo) (Kyoto) (Miyazaki) (Yamaguchi) (Niigata) Masaaki Akaike (C) Masahiro Ishii (C) Masahiro Ishida (C) Takumi Ihara (C) Tsuneo Kitamura (C) Toshirou Toyoda (C) Shingo Miyake (C) Syuuji Miyamoto (C) Hiroshi Moriya (C) Syuuji Yamada (C) (Yamanashi) (Okayama) (Ehime) (Chiba) (Kagawa) (Ishikawa) (Yamanashi) (Ishikawa) ● Participant from Government Offices: Toshimitsu Fujiki, Director-General for Commerce and Service Industry Policy, METI ● Participant from Exhibition Industry: Tad Ishizumi, Chairman of Japan Exhibition Association (JEXA) " (R)" indicates that he/she is a member of the House of Representatives. " (C)" indicates that he/she is a member of the House of Councillors. ２／２.
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