Profile Itsunori Onodera

Last Update: 9 Sep 2014


5 May 1960 Born in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture
March 1983 Graduated from Tokyo University of Fisheries (Department of Marine Environmental Science and Technology, Faculty of Fisheries)
April 1983 Joined Miyagi Prefectural Government
April 1990 Entered the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management(11th graduating class)
March 1993 Completed study at Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
April 1994 Special Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Guest Professor, Tohoku Fukushi University (until January 1998)
December 1997 Elected as member of the House of Representatives (Miyagi 6th District by-election)
October 1999 Deputy Director, Fisheries Division, Policy Research Council, LDP
September 2000 Visiting Research Fellow, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA
April 2001 President, Masuko Gakuen
October 2002 Associate Professor, Tohoku Fukushi University
November 2003 Returned as member of the House of Representatives at the 43rd House of Representatives Election (2nd term)
Director, Special Committee on Prevention of International Terrorism and Japan's Cooperation and Support; Humanitarian Assistance for Reconstruction in Iraq, House of Representatives
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Deputy Director, Foreign Affairs Division, Policy Research Council, LDP
September 2004 Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs
September 2005 Returned as member of the House of Representatives at the 44th House of Representatives Election (3rd term)
Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs (reappointed)
November 2005 Director, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Acting Chairman, LDP Foreign Affairs Division
October 2006 Deputy Chairman of LDP Diet Affairs Committee
August 2007 Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
August 2009 Returned as member of the House of Representatives at the 45th House of Representatives Election (4th term)