Ministers

Minister for Digital Transformation

KONO Taro

Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister in Charge of Digital Garden City Nation Vision
Minister in Charge of Administrative Reform
Minister in Charge of Civil Service Reform
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform

Date of Birth
January 10, 1963

Place of Birth
Kanagawa Prefecture

Education

Dec. 1985
Graduated from Georgetown University, USA

Career

Feb. 1986
Joined Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Jan. 1993
Joined Nippon Tanshi Co., Ltd.

Oct. 1996
Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. Since then, elected 9 times consecutively

Dec. 1999
Appointed Chairman of Shonan Bellmare Co., Ltd.

Jan. 2002
Appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications(1st Koizumi Cabinet)

Apr. 2002
Became a living donor and transplanted the liver to his father

Nov. 2005
Appointed State Minister of Justice(3rd Koizumi Cabinet (Reshuffled))

Sep. 2008
Elected Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the House of Representatives

Oct. 2015
Appointed Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission,
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform,
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform,
Minister of State for Disaster Management,
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform,
Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety
(3rd Abe Cabinet (Reshuffled))

Aug. 2017
Appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs(3rd Abe Cabinet (3rd Reshuffled))

Sep. 2019
Appointed Minister of Defense(4th Abe Cabinet (2nd Reshuffled))

Sep. 2020
Appointed Minister in charge of Administrative Reform,
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform,
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs,
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
(Suga Cabinet)

Jan. 2021
Appointed Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out(Suga Cabinet)

Aug. 2022
Appointed Minister for Digital Transformation,
Minister for Digital Reform,
Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety,
Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform
(2nd Kishida Cabinet (Reshuffled))

Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation, Chief Officer of Digital Agency

ASANUMA Takashi

Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation, Chief Officer of Digital Agency

Date of Birth
May 11, 1976

Place of Birth
Tokyo Metropolis

Education

Mar. 2001
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University

Aug. 2007
Ph.D Program Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University

Aug. 2010
Ph.D Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University
(School of Integrated Design Engineering)

Career

Apr. 2001
Toshiba corp

Apr. 2010
Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University

Jan. 2013
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.

Feb. 2017
Tigerspike（Concentrix Catalyst）

Sep. 2018
Chief Experience Officer of Japan Digital Design

Sep. 2021
Chief Design Officer of Digital Agency

Apr. 2022
Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation, Chief Officer of Digital Agency