Kenya Akiba | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister for Reconstruction |
Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
Term Start: | 10 August 2022 |
Term End: | 27 December 2022 |
Predecessor: | Kosaburo Nishime |
Successor: | Hiromichi Watanabe |
Office2: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Constituency2: | Miyagi 2nd (2005–2009; 2012–2021) Tohoku PR (2009–2012; 2021–2024) |
Term Start2: | 25 April 2005 |
Term End2: | 9 October 2024 |
Predecessor2: | Sayuri Kamata |
Successor2: | Multi-member district |
Office3: | Member of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly |
Constituency3: | Sendai City Izumi Ward |
Term Start3: | 1995 |
Term End3: | 2005 |
Birth Date: | 3 July 1962 |
Birth Place: | Miyagi, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Alma Mater: | Chuo University Tohoku University |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Miyagi Prefecture, he attended Chuo University as an undergraduate and received his master's degree from Tohoku University. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Miyagi Prefecture in 1995 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.