Noboru Takeshita
is a Minister for Reconstruction and a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Kakeya, Shimane and graduate of Keio University he was elected for the first time in 2000. His brother was former prime minister Noboru Takeshita. He is a member of the Heisei Kenkyukai faction, which supported Yoshihide Suga in the 2020 Liberal Democratic Party of Japan leadership election.