Shigeru Ishiba
| Shigeru Ishiba | |
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| 石破 茂 | |
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| Minister for Overcoming Population Decline and Vitalizing Local Economy Minister of State for the National Strategic Special Zones |
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In office 3 September 2014 – 3 August 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
| Preceded by | Position Created |
| Succeeded by | Kozo Yamamoto |
| Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
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In office 26 September 2012 – 3 September 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
| Preceded by | Kosuke Hori |
| Succeeded by | Sadakazu Tanigaki |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 26 September 2007 – 1 August 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Yasuo Fukuda |
| Preceded by | Masahiko Kōmura |
| Succeeded by | Yoshimasa Hayashi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 February 1957 Yazu, Tottori, Japan |
| Alma mater | Keio University |
Shigeru Ishiba (石破 茂 Ishiba Shigeru?, born 4 February 1957) is a Japanese politician. Ishiba is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and of Heisei-Kenkyukai (part of the party faction led by Fukushiro Nukaga) until 2011. He was Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2008 and was also Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The LDP lost government in 2009, and in 2012 after challenging for the presidency of the LDP and losing to Shinzō Abe he accepted the position of Secretary-General of the LDP on 27 September 2012. Since 3 September 2014 he has served in cabinet as minister overseeing regional economic revitalization and policies aimed at reversing population decline.
Born and raised in Yazu District, Tottori, his father Jiro was the governor of Tottori Prefecture. Ishiba graduated from Keio University in 1979 and started working in Mitsui Bank.
Ishiba was appointed as the Minister of Defense to the cabinet of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on 26 September 2007, serving in that post until 1 August 2008. Ishiba was the second person in the cabinet of Fukuda to express belief in the existence of UFOs after Nobutaka Machimura. To that end he appeared on a Japanese TV program which featured dubbed extracts from the National Geographic Channel's Alien Invasion series in June 2012.
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