Kosaburo Nishime | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of Reconstruction |
Term Start: | 4 October 2021 |
Term End: | August 10 2022 |
Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
Predecessor: | Katsuei Hirasawa |
Successor: | Kenya Akiba |
Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives for Okinawa 4th District |
Term Start1: | 19 December 2012 |
Term Start2: | 21 July 2009 |
Term End2: | 10 November 2003 |
Birth Date: | 7 August 1954 |
Birth Place: | Chinen, Okinawa, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
Alma Mater: | Sophia University |
is a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Reconstruction from October 2021 to August 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also serves in the House of Representatives representing Okinawa’s 4th District since 2012.
A native of Chinen and graduate of Sophia University, he was elected to the assembly of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time in 1988 and to the Diet for the first time in 2003. His father is Junji Nishime, former governor of Okinawa Prefecture, and his brother is Junshiro Nishime, a former member of the House of Councilors in the Diet.