Gen Nakatani (中谷 元, Nakatani Gen, born 14 October 1957) is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry of Defense) in the first cabinet of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001-2002 and was appointed as the Minister of Defense by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014.[1][2]
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GenNakatani (中谷 元, NakataniGen, born 14 October 1957) is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry...
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2002 – 27 September 2004 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Preceded by GenNakatani Succeeded by Yoshinori Ohno Member of the House of Representatives Incumbent...
Middle East with CENTCOM. In November 2015, Japanese Defense Minister GenNakatani said he would consider the U.S. deploying the THAAD in Japan to counter...
office 3 August 2016 – 28 July 2017 Prime Minister Shinzō Abe Preceded by GenNakatani Succeeded by Fumio Kishida (Acting) Minister of Administrative Reform...
considered too weak and was a major reason for Abe to replace him with GenNakatani, who is seen as a stronger figure. Like Abe and most members of the Cabinet...
Eto, who was also involved in a political funding controversy, with GenNakatani. In his February policy speech, as the Cabinet weathered a Moritomo Gakuen...
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known as a representative of Issui-kai, a right-wing Pan-Asianism group. GenNakatani (中谷元) Currently the Chairman of the Japan-Kurdish Parliamentary Friendship...
chief of staff, Japan Air Self-Defense Force Satoshi Morimoto, scholar GenNakatani, Minister of State for Defense in the first cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi...
2017–2018 Succeeded by Takeshi Iwaya Party political offices Preceded by GenNakatani Chairman of the Security Research Commission, Liberal Democratic Party...
and Paul Gosar, Fmr. METI Minister Akira Amari, Fmr. Defense Minister GenNakatani, Fmr. Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, Fmr. Taiwanese Finance Minister...
integrated naval task forces to repel an invasion of Japan, Defense Minister GenNakatani denied that Japan would always come to the aid of the US, and Prime Minister...
2015 Minister of defence Minister in charge of security legislation GenNakatani R December 24, 2014 – August 3, 2016 Chief cabinet secretary Minister...
severed its extradition agreement with New Zealand on 3 August. In Japan, GenNakatani, of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Shiori Yamao set up a nonpartisan...
designer 1957 – Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician 1957 – GenNakatani, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense 1958...
Minister Junichiro Koizumi Preceded by Kazuo Torashima Succeeded by GenNakatani Member of the House of Representatives Incumbent Assumed office 1986...
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