Akira Amari

He is a member of the Japan–Korea Parliamentarians' Union and the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' Union.

He was the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry from 2006 to 2008.

In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed on 24 September 2008, Amari was appointed as Minister of State in charge of Administrative Reform.^[2]

On December 26, 2012, Amari was appointed to the newly created cabinet-level position of Minister of State for Economic Revitalization in the second Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Amari's responsibilities within the Abe government also include tax and social security reform.^[3] Like Abe and most members of the Cabinet, he is affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.^[4]

In 2016, Amari resigned from his Cabinet post amidst allegations of bribery, and was succeeded by Nobuteru Ishihara.^[5]

In late September 2021, newly elected Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appointed Amari to succeed Toshihiro Nikai as the Secretary General of the LDP.^[6] In an upset, Amari lost his seat representing Kanagawa's 13th district to Constitutional Democratic Party opponent Hideshi Futori during the 2021 Japanese general elections, but retained his seat in the lower house as representative of the Southern Kanto proportional representation block.^[7] Nevertheless, Amari resigned from his position as the party's Secretary General, and Kishida appointed Toshimitsu Motegi to be his replacement.^[8]

• Official website (in Japanese)

Political offices
Preceded by Bunmei Ibuki	Minister of Labour 1998–1999	Succeeded by Takamori Makino
Preceded by Toshihiro Nikai	Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry 2006–2008	Succeeded by Toshihiro Nikai
Preceded by Kaoru Yosano	Minister of State for Regulatory Reform 2008–2009	Succeeded by Tomomi Inada (2012)
Preceded by Seiji Maehara	Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy 2012–2016	Succeeded by Nobuteru Ishihara
Party political offices
Preceded by Toshimitsu Motegi	Chief of the Public Relations Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party 2011-2012	Succeeded by Sanae Takaichi
	Chairman of the Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party 2012
Preceded by Hiroyuki Hosoda	Chief of the Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party 2017-2018	Succeeded by Yasuhisa Shiozaki
Preceded by Ryu Shionoya	Chairman of the Election Strategy Committee, Liberal Democratic Party 2018-2019	Succeeded by Hakubun Shimomura
Preceded by Yoichi Miyazawa	Chairman of the Tax Research Commission, Liberal Democratic Party 2019-2021	Succeeded by Yoichi Miyazawa
Preceded by Toshihiro Nikai	Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party 2021	Succeeded by Toshimitsu Motegi