| Yoshiaki Takaki | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office2: | Minister of State for Disaster Management |
| Primeminister2: | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2012 |
| Term End2: | 1 October 2012 |
| Predecessor2: | Tatsuo Hirano |
| Successor2: | Mikio Shimoji |
| Office3: | Minister of State for the New Public Commons |
| Primeminister3: | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Term Start3: | 1 February 2012 |
| Predecessor3: | Katsuya Okada |
| Successor3: | Ikko Nakatsuka |
| Term End3: | 1 October 2012 |
| Office4: | Minister of State for Gender Equality |
| Primeminister4: | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Term Start4: | 1 February 2012 |
| Term End4: | 1 October 2012 |
| Predecessor4: | Katsuya Okada |
| Successor4: | Ikko Nakatsuka |
| Office5: | Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate |
| Primeminister5: | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Term Start5: | 10 February 2012 |
| Term End5: | 23 April 2012 |
| Predecessor5: | Katsuya Okada |
| Successor5: | Yoko Komiyama |
| Office6: | Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| Primeminister6: | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Term Start6: | 2 September 2011 |
| Term End6: | 13 January 2012 |
| Predecessor6: | Yoshiaki Takaki |
| Successor6: | Hirofumi Hirano |
| Office7: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Constituency7: | Mie 2nd (1996–2021) Tōkai PR (2021–2024) |
| Term Start7: | 21 October 1996 |
| Term End7: | 9 October 2024 |
| Office8: | Member of the Mie Prefectural Assembly |
| Constituency8: | Matsusaka City |
| Term Start8: | 1983 |
| Term End8: | 1995 |
| Party: | CDP (since 2017) |
| Otherparty: | LDP (before 1992) JNP (1992–1994) NFP (1994–1997) Independent (1997–1998) GGP (1998) DPJ (1998–2016) DP (2016–2017) |
| Birth Date: | 10 June 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Matsusaka, Mie, Japan |
| Alma Mater: | Georgetown University |
is a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. A native of Matsusaka, Mie and graduate of Georgetown University in the United States he was elected for the first time in 1996 after serving in the local assembly of Mie Prefecture. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.[1] [2]