Yoshimi Watanabe

Yoshimi Watanabe
渡辺 喜美
Watanabe in 2010
Minister of State for Financial Services
In office
27 August 2007 – 2 August 2008
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded byYuji Yamamoto
Succeeded byToshimitsu Motegi
Minister for Administrative Reform
In office
28 December 2006 – 2 August 2008
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded byGenichiro Sata
Succeeded byToshimitsu Motegi
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
In office
28 December 2006 – 27 August 2007
Prime MinisterShinzo Abe
Preceded byGenichiro Sata
Succeeded byFumio Kishida
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
26 July 2016 – 25 July 2022
ConstituencyNational PR
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
21 October 1996 – 21 November 2014
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byKazuo Yana
ConstituencyTochigi 3rd
Personal details
Born (1952-03-17) 17 March 1952
PartyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
LDP (1995–2009)
Your Party (2009–2014)
JIP (2016–2019)
Alma materWaseda University
Chuo University
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Yoshimi Watanabe (渡辺 喜美, Watanabe Yoshimi; born 17 March 1952) is a former Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and later the founder of Your Party, after which he became a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai until 2019 when he then became an independent politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2014, and returned to the Diet (national legislature) in 2016 as a member of the House of Councillors.