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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.

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