Shintaro Ito | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of the Environment |
Term Start: | 13 September 2023 |
Term End: | 1 October 2024 |
Primeminister: | Fumio Kishida |
Predecessor: | Akihiro Nishimura |
Successor: | Keiichiro Asao |
Office2: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Constituency2: | Miyagi 4th |
Term Start2: | 19 December 2012 |
Term End2: | 9 October 2024 |
Predecessor2: | Keiki Ishiyama |
Successor2: | Jun Azumi |
Constituency3: | Miyagi 4th |
Term Start3: | 19 October 2001 |
Term End3: | 21 July 2009 |
Predecessor3: | Soichiro Ito |
Successor3: | Keiki Ishiyama |
Birth Date: | 6 May 1953 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Father: | Soichiro Ito |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Alma Mater: | Keio University Harvard 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 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. He served as Minister of the Environment and as Minister in the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks (Nuclear Disaster Prevention) in the second reshuffled Cabinet of Prime Minister Kishida until the dissolution of the Cabinet on October 1, 2024.[1]
In 1988, Ito directed development for a political video game, America Daitōryō Senkyo.