Kazuma Amamiya

  

His Excellency Kazuma Amamiya
雨宮 和真
House of Representatives photo, November 2017
Prime Minister of Japan
Incumbent
Assumed office December 10, 2018
Deputy	Tourei Saito
Preceded by	Hajime Tanaka (Caretaker)
Chairman of the Emergency Committee for National Security
Incumbent
Assumed office December 10, 2018
Preceded by	Shintaro Minami
President of the Restoration Conference
Incumbent
Assumed office December 7, 2018
Deputy	Tourei Saito
Chairman	Jun Kasai
Preceded by	Shintaro Minami
Member of the House of Representatives for Kanagawa 3rd District
Incumbent
Assumed office May 15, 2001
Majority	105,224 (11.4%)
Personal details
Born	雨宮和真 (Amamiya Kazuma) (1965-04-03) April 3, 1965 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Political party	Restoration Conference
Spouse(s)	Haruka Amamiya (1986-present)
Children	2
Residence	Kantei, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Alma mater	University of Tokyo Stanford University
Military service
Allegiance	Japan
Branch/service	Japanese State Navy
Years of service	1983-2001 (Reserve)
Rank	Commander
Unit	Japanese Naval Reserve

Kazuma Amamiya (雨宮 和真; Amamiya Kazuma; born 3 April 1965) is a Japanese politician who is the Prime Minister of Japan since 2018. Amamiya is also currently the president of the conservative Restoration Conference (IK). He previously served as Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry from 2014 to 2018.

First elected to the House of Representatives from Kanagawa in 2001, Amamiya was appointed to the House of Representatives Committee on Economy, Trade, and Industry in 2003. Amamiya was chair of the Committee from 2009 to 2012 during the recovery from the Great Recession, which had a notable impact on Japan's export focused economy. His political mentor Shintaro Minami appointed him to his Cabinet as Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry upon being elected Prime Minister in 2014. Amamiya was elected President of the Restoration Conference at a special convention after Minami's death in November 2018, and elected Prime Minister by the Diet on December 10, 2018.

Amamiya is a conservative seen by most commentators as a right wing militarist and a nationalist. He is a member of the ultranationalist Japan Protection Group in the Restoration Conference and holds revisionist views on Japanese History, including assertions that Korean women were not coerced, but volunteered, to server as comfort women in World War II, which has caused considerable tensions with Korea, and that the Nanjing Massacre was a proportional response to attacks by the Chinese Army on the Kwantung Army. He advocates for the continued buildup of Japan's military to counter China's expansionist ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region.

Early life and education

Kazuma Amamiya was born on April 3, 1965 in Yokohama, Kanagawa. His father, Osamu Amamiya, served as mayor of Yokohama during World War II and later as a member of the House of Representatives from Kanagawa's 1st District. His grandfather, Yoshiaki Amamiya, served as a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army's Kwantung Army in Manchukuo during World War II. Amamiya's mother, Yuki Furukawa is the great-granddaughter of Furukawa Ichibei, founder of the Furukawa Group, one of Japan's largest industrial conglomerates. Amamiya's ancestral home ("honseki chi") is in Amami, Kagoshima, where his great-grandfather Amamiya Junichiro resided.

Amamiya was educated at Yokohama Suiran High School. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in public administration from Tokyo University and studied political science at the Stanford University. In 1988, Amamiya began working as a public policy analyst at Yokohama Rubber. He left the company in 1995 and began seeking employment in politics, first working as an executive secretary to the IK Policy Committee chief. He expressed interest in becoming a candidate for the IK nomination in the Kanagawa 1st District in 1997, but was not selected.

Member of the House of Representatives (2001–2018)

Kazuma Amamiya was selected by the Kanagawa Prefectural Committee of the Restoration Conference as candidate for the Kanagawa 3rd District's House of Representatives seat from a shortlist of 8 potential nominees. He was elected in the IK stronghold in a landslide, being inaugurated as a Member of the House of Representatives on May 15, 2001. Amamiya continued his work with the IK Policy Committee as an economic affairs director.

Prime Minister (2018–present)

The National Diet was dissolved on August 17, 2018 for the start of the pre-election campaign period. Amamiya was expected to be reappointed Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry in the Second Minami Cabinet, as the Restoration Conference campaign focused on three tentpole promises: "Stability, Prosperity, Security." Events took an unexpected turn when Prime Minister Minami fell ill and was diagnosed with

Personal life

Amamiya married Haruka Mogami, a journalist writing for the Kanto Shinbun, in 1986. They met while studying together at the University of Tokyo. They have a son, Junichi, and a daughter, Sāya. Amamiya is known for enjoying katsudon. He is a fan of the Yokohama BayStars professional baseball team.

Cabinet

Amamiya's first cabinet was announced on 18 December 2018.

	First (18 December 2018)
Secretary	Kouya Tachibana
Defense, China	Tourei Saito
Treasury, Financial Policy, Economic Policy	Ichiro Kawamura
Internal Affairs, Territories	Motoyoshi Ushida
Foreign Affairs	Takuhiro Koiwai
Information and Culture, National Unity	Kazuo Sakai
Justice, Public Safety	Momo Takagaki
Transport	Taimei Mori
Education, Gender Equality	Rin Shirasaki
Health, Ageing	Kensou Terasaki
Agriculture and Environment	Junya Tomiyama
Economy, Trade, Industry	Kaiji Nikaido
International Development	Shizuka Momoi

Ancestry

Ancestors of Kazuma Amamiya
8. Amamiya Junichiro 4. Yoshiaki Amamiya 9. Hidaka Naruko 2. Osamu Amamiya 10. Tezuka Kazutaro 5. Shizuka Tezuka 11. Yokoyama Nao 1. Kazuma Amamiya 12. Furukawa Toranosuke 6. Ryusuke Furukawa 13. Saigō Fujiko 3. Yuki Furukawa 14. Aoki Hideo 7. Yuriko Aoki 15. Tokuno Kiyoko

See also

Political offices
Preceded by Junbei Mori	Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry 2014–2018	Succeeded by Kaiji Nikaido
Preceded by Hajime Tanaka	Prime Minister of Japan 2018–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Shintaro Minami	President of the Restoration Conference 2018–present	Incumbent