Naoki Okada
{{Short description|Japanese politician}}
{{nihongo|Naoki Okada|岡田 直樹|Okada Naoki|extra=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).
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File:Svante Paabo and Naoki Okada 20230201.jpg (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.{{Cite web |title=Japan's Kishida revamps Cabinet as public support slips |url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/ee92908726d4-japan-pm-to-reshuffle-cabinet-ldp-leadership-as-public-support-slips.html |date=2022-08-10 |website=Kyodo News+}}
References
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- {{cite news |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0008/00008714.html |script-title=ja:政治家情報 〜岡田 直樹〜 |script-newspaper=ja:ザ･選挙 |newspaper=JANJAN |access-date=2007-10-25 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208145638/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/diet/profile/0008/00008714.html |archive-date=2007-12-08 |url-status=dead }}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.okada-naoki.net/}} in Japanese.
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Category:Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Category:People from Kanazawa, Ishikawa
Category:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
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