Shunsuke Mutai (務台 俊介, Mutai Shunsuke, born 1956) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), having been elected in the 2012 general election. He is a former career bureaucrat in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications[1] (briefly serving as Director of the CLAIR London Office) and graduate of University of Tokyo. Having unsuccessfully contested his Nagano no. 2 constituency in the 2009 general election, he then served as a professor of local administration at Kanagawa University.[2]
Shunsuke Mutai | |
|---|---|
務台 俊介 | |
 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 16 December 2012 – 9 October 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mitsu Shimojo |
| Succeeded by | Multi-member district |
| Constituency | Nagano 2nd (2012–2017) Hokuriku-Shin'etsu PR (2017–2024) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 July 1956 Misato, Nagano, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Education | University of Tokyo |
Mutai was Secretary to the Alliance of Legislators who wish to legislate for Mountain Day, which was inaugurated in August 2016.[1]
In 2016 Mutai was appointed Parliamentary Vice Minister for Reconstruction and shortly after hit global headlines concerning an incident concerning a ministerial visit to a disaster-hit region. [2] Half year later at a campaign party Mutai joked about the incident only to be criticized by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. Mutai resigned from his post on the following day. [3] At the 2017 general election Mutai was defeated in his Nagano constituency but re-elected to the Diet under his party's proportional representation bloc.[4] He was reappointed to government as a State Minister for the Environment in October 2021 [5] but relieved of his position in the August 2022 Kishida reshuffle [6].
References
edit- ^ "Seminar: Local Government and the Regions in the UK and Japan". Daiwa Anglo-Japan Foundation. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
- ^ 神大の先生：務台 俊介 教授 (in Japanese). 神奈川大学. Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
External links
edit- Official website in Japanese.
- LDP profile page (English)
- Twitter account
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