Masashi Adachi
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Masashi Adachi | |
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阿達 雅志 | |
 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| Assumed office 4 December 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Yukari Sato |
| Constituency | National PR |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 September 1959 Sakyō, Kyoto, Japan |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Masashi Adachi (阿達 雅志 Adachi Masashi, b. September 27, 1959) is a Japanese politician who serves as a member of the House of Councillors and as a State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.[1]
Adachi was born in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, and grew up in Fukui, Sakai, and Takatsuki. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and joined Sumitomo Corporation in 1983, where he worked on rail car exports to the United States. He obtained an MCJ and LLM from the New York University School of Law in 1993, and became qualified as a lawyer in New York. He thereafter worked in the legal department of Sumitomo, and in the executive office of its Chinese subsidiary. He left Sumitomo in 2000, and thereafter worked for his father-in-law, Shinji Satō (a Diet member and son of Prime Minister Eisaku Satō), from 2003 to 2004. He then worked for the law firm of Paul Weiss in Tokyo from 2004 to 2014.[2]
