page_title: Yasutoshi Nishimura
section_title: Profile and career
hierarchical_section_title: Yasutoshi Nishimura / Profile and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Urmas Paet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, met Yasutoshi Nishimura, Senior Vice-Minister of the Cabinet Office, at the Central Government Building No.4 in Chiyoda Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis
context_page_description: Yasutoshi Nishimura is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.
context_section_description: A native of Akashi, Hyōgo and a relative of Akira Fukida, a former Minister of Home Affairs, Nishimura graduated the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law.
  Nishimura joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1985, attending the University of Maryland while in the ministry. In 2003 he was elected for the first time as an independent after running unsuccessfully in 2000. He later joined the LDP.
  Nishimura was running for the LDP presidential elections which was held September 28, 2009, but Sadakazu Tanigaki was elected.
  Nishimura also served as Acting Director, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Division of LDP, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Fukuda Cabinet), Deputy Chairman, Policy Research Council of LDP, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of LDP's Shadow Cabinet, Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office.
caption: Nishimura with Urmas Paet (January 31, 2014)
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