Yoshitaka Murata
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Secretary | Shinzo Abe |
Internal Affairs | Heizo Takenaka |
Justice | Seiken Sugiura |
Foreign Affairs | Taro Aso |
Finance | Sadakazu Tanigaki |
Education | Kenji Kosaka |
Health | Jiro Kawasaki |
Agriculture | Shoichi Nakagawa |
Economy | Toshihiro Nikai |
Land | Kazuo Kitagawa |
Environment | Yuriko Koike |
Defense | Fukushiro Nukaga |
Ministers of State | Tetsuo Kutsukake, Kaoru Yosano, Koki Chuma, Iwao Matsuda, Kuniko Inoguchi |
Yoshitaka Murata (村田吉隆; b. July 30, 1944) is the Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, the Minister of State for Disaster Management and the Minister of State for National Emergency Legislation in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.
Born in the city of Shizuoka, Murata graduated from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University and joined the Ministry of Finance in 1968. In 1990, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time and, since September 2004 he has been on the present posts.