Shintaro Ito | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of the Environment |
Term Start: | 13 September 2023 |
Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
Predecessor: | Akihiro Nishimura |
Office2: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start2: | 19 December 2012 |
Predecessor3: | Soichiro Ito |
Term Start3: | 19 October 2001 |
Term End3: | 21 July 2009 |
Constituency3: | Miyagi 4th |
Birth Date: | 6 May 1953 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Parents: | Soichiro Ito(father) |
Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he received his master's degrees from Keio University and Harvard University and completed a program at the American Film Institute. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2001.
In 1988, Ito directed development for a political video game, America Daitōryō Senkyo.