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Minoru Terada
Japanese politician (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Minoru Terada (寺田 稔, Terada Minoru; born January 24, 1958) is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from August until November 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also serves in the House of Representatives and was Special Advisor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida from December 2021 to August 2022.
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Early life
Terada is a native of Hiroshima, Hiroshima and graduated from the University of Tokyo (Alma mater, Faculty of Law). He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980, attending Harvard University in United States in 1982, while in the ministry.
Political career
Terada was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2004, having left the ministry after the death of his uncle and former Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda.
Terada also served as Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office, and Senior Vice Minister for Reconstruction[1]
On November 20, 2022, Terada was sacked from his position as the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications after a magazine alleging him of misusing political funds, prompting calls for his resignation from opposition parties who saw him as unfit to supervise election-related laws.[2]
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Policies
Affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, which advocates a return to militarism in Japan,[3] Terada is in favor of allowing collective self-defense.[4]
Family
Terada's wife Keiko is a granddaughter of Hayato Ikeda, former Prime Minister of Japan.
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