Sadakazu Tanigaki

Sadakazu Tanigaki
Sadakazu Tanigaki
谷垣禎一
	Official portrait, 2009
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
	In office; 28 September 2009 – 26 September 2012
Vice President	Tadamori Ōshima
Secretary-General	Tadamori Ōshima; Nobuteru Ishihara;
Preceded by	Tarō Asō
Succeeded by	Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Minister of Justice
	In office; 26 December 2012 – 3 September 2014
Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe
Preceded by	Makoto Taki
Succeeded by	Midori Matsushima
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
	In office; 2 August 2008 – 24 September 2008
Prime Minister	Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded by	Tetsuzo Fuyushiba
Succeeded by	Nariaki Nakayama
Minister of Finance
	In office; 22 September 2003 – 26 September 2006
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Masajuro Shiokawa
Succeeded by	Kōji Omi
Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
	In office; 30 September 2002 – 22 September 2003
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Jin Murai
Succeeded by	Kiyoko Ono
Chairman of the Financial Reconstruction Commission
	In office; 25 February 2000 – 4 July 2000
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi; Yoshirō Mori
Preceded by	Michio Ochi
Succeeded by	Kimitaka Kuze
Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
	In office; 11 September 1997 – 30 July 1998
Prime Minister	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by	Riichirō Chikaoka
Succeeded by	Yutaka Takeyama
President
Party political offices
Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party
	In office; 3 September 2014 – 3 August 2016
President	Shinzo Abe
Vice President	Masahiko Kōmura
Preceded by	Shigeru Ishiba
Succeeded by	Toshihiro Nikai
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Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 8 August 1983 – 28 September 2017
Preceded by	Sen'ichi Tanigaki
Succeeded by	Tarō Honda
Constituency	Kyoto 2nd (1983–1996); Kyoto 5th (1996–2017)
Personal details
Born	7 March 1945; Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Parent	Sen'ichi Tanigaki (father);
Education	Azabu High School
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Signature
Website	Official website

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Sadakazu Tanigaki (谷垣禎一, Tanigaki Sadakazu; born 7 March 1945) is a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2017, as Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006, as President of the Liberal Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2009 to 2012, as Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2014, and as LDP Secretary-General from 2014 to 2016. He was only the second LDP leader who was not simultaneously Prime Minister of Japan. He retired from politics following a spinal cord injury in 2016 that saw him using a wheelchair.