Keiji Furuya

Keiji Furuya (古屋 圭司, Furuya Keiji, born 1952) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan.

Keiji Furuya
古屋 圭司
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
18 February 1990
Personal details
Born1952
Alma materSeikei University

Career
With Seishirō Etō (at the Presidential Office Building on May 20, 2016)

A native of Tokyo, who attended secondary schools in NY area, and graduate of Seikei University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990.

Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[1] Keiji Furuya is also a member of the following groups at the Diet: Japan (Vice Chair), Textbooks, Shinto, Yasukuni, Fundamental Education Law Reform (Committee Chair), Nikkyoso, Constitutional Revision, Japan Rebirth (Delegate Chair), China Memorial Photographs Protest (Vice Chair), Proper Japan, Protest American Comfort Women Resolution, North Korea Kidnap Victims (Secretary General).[2]

He is the head of the Japan-ROC Diet Members' Consultative Council.[3]

Political career
Dec. 2012 Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission

Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue

Minister in charge of Building National Resilience

Minister of State for Disaster Management

(2nd Abe Cabinet)

Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 46th general election (eighth term)

Oct. 2012 Served as Chairman, Headquarters for Party and Political System Reform Implementation, Liberal Democratic Party
Oct. 2009 Served as President, Central Institute of Politics, Liberal Democratic Party
Aug. 2009 Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 45th general election (seventh term)
Sep. 2008 Served as Chairman, Public Relations Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party
Aug. 2008 Served as Director, Interest Group Policy Division, Liberal Democratic Party
Oct. 2007 Served as Deputy Chairman (Manager), Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
Sep. 2005 Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 44th general election (sixth term)
Oct. 2004 Served as Acting Chairman, Headquarters for Party and Political System Reform Implementation, Liberal Democratic Party
Nov. 2003 Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 43rd general election (fifth term)

Served as Deputy Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party

Oct. 2002 Served as Chairman, Committee of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, House of Representatives
May 2001 Served as Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Dec. 2000 Served as Deputy Chairman (Manager), Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
Jul. 2000 Served as Chairman, Commerce and Industry Committee, House of Representatives
Jun. 2000 Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 42nd general election (fourth term)
Oct. 1999 Served as member of the House Steering Committee, House of Representatives
Sep. 1998 Served as Deputy Chairman, Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party
Oct. 1997 Served as senior member of Posts and Telecommunication Committee, House of Representatives
Nov. 1996 Served as Director, Posts and Telecommunication Division, Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
Oct. 1996 Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 41st general election (third term)
Jan. 1996 Served as Director, Youth Division, Liberal Democratic Party
Aug. 1995 Served as Vice-Minister of Justice
Mar. 1995 Served as Director, Youth Division, Liberal Democratic Party
Jul. 1993 Reelected to the House of Representatives at the 40th general election (second term)
Feb. 1990 Won a House of Representatives seat at the 39th general election (first term)
Nov. 1984 Secretary to Minister of Home Affairs Toru FURUYA
Apr. 1984 Secretary to Minister for Foreign Affairs Shintaro ABE[4]

References
  1. Nippon Kaigi website
  2. "The Abe Cabinet - An Ideological Breakdown" - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus - Jan 28, 2013
  3. "Japan lawmaker seeks forum with US, Taiwan to restrain China". Mainichi Shimbun. October 9, 2020. Keiji Furuya, head of the Japan-ROC Diet Members' Consultative Council, said that his council has been working to broker security cooperation between Japan, the United States and Taiwan, which calls itself the Republic of China.
  4. https://japan.kantei.go.jp/96_abe/cabinetlist1/daijin/1206753_9741.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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