Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries KANEKO Genjiro

Name	KANEKO Genjiro
Date of Birth	May 8, 1944
Place of Birth	Nagasaki Prefecture
Education	Keio University Faculty of Letters, 1968

CURRICULUM VITAE
April 1968	Joined Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
August 1969	Joined Kanei Bussan Co., Ltd.
April 1975	Member, Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly
December 1983	Elected to the House of Representatives (HR) (37th General Election)
July 1986	Elected to the HR (38th General Election)
February 1990	Elected to the HR (39th General Election)
February 1990- December 1990	Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Construction
July 1993	Elected to the HR (40th General Election)
August 1993- September 1994	Chairman, Special Committee on Coal Problems, House of Representatives
June 1994- September 1995	Chairman, Committee on Judicial Affairs, House of Representatives
October 1996	Elected to the HR (41st General Election)
March 1998	Governor, Nagasaki Prefecture (the 52nd)
March 2002	Governor, Nagasaki Prefecture (the 53rd)
March 2006	Governor, Governor, Nagasaki Prefecture (the 54th)
July 2010	Elected to the House of Councillors (HC) (22nd Regular Election)
October 2012- September 2014	Chairman, Committee on Audit
March 2015- July 2016	Chairman, Board of Oversight and Review of Specially Designated Secrets
July 2016	Elected to the HC (24th Regular Election)
August 2016- September 2016	Chairman, Board of Oversight and Review of Specially Designated Secrets
September 2016- September 2017	Chairman, Research Committee on Natural Resources and Energy
September 2017- October 2020	Chairman, Committee on Budget
October 2020	Chairman of the Deliberative Council on Political Ethics
October 2021	Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries