Naoki Okada

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Naoki Okada
岡田 直樹
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Official portrait, 2022
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(Political affairs, House of Councillors)
In office
11 September 2019 – 4 October 2021
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Yoshihide Suga
Preceded byKōtarō Nogami
Succeeded byYoshihiko Isozaki
Member of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
26 July 2004
Preceded bySōta Iwamoto
ConstituencyIshikawa at-large
Member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly
In office
19 March 2002 – 29 April 2003
ConstituencyKanazawa City
Personal details
Born (1962-06-09) 9 June 1962 (age 63)
PartyLiberal Democratic
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Naoki Okada (岡田 直樹, Okada Naoki; born June 9, 1962) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Career

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Okada with Svante Pääbo (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on February 1, 2023)

A native of Kanazawa, Ishikawa and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he had worked at Hokkoku Shimbun, a regional newspaper in Kanazawa since 1989 and had served in the assembly of Ishikawa Prefecture since 2002. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004. He is the Minister in charge for regional revitalization under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the reshuffled Second Kishida Cabinet as of 10 August 2022.[1]

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