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Fumio Kishida
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Person

Fumio Kishida

b. 1957

Prime Minister of Japan from 2021 to 2024

Born
29 Jul 1957 · Shibuya
Part ofJapan230 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 79 years
  1. 29 Jul 1957BornBorn in Shibuya
  2. 1993 – 1996RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  3. 1996 – 2000RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  4. 2000 – 2003RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  5. 2001 – 2002RoleDeputy Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  6. 2003 – 2005RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  7. 2005 – 2009RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  8. 2007RoleMinister of State for "Challenge Again" Initiative
  9. 2007RoleMinister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
  10. 2007RoleMinister of State for Quality-of-Life Policy
  11. 2007RoleMinister of State for Regulatory Reform
  12. 2007RoleMinister of State for Science and Technology Policy
  13. 2008RoleMinister of State for Consumer Affairs
  14. 2008RoleMinister of State for Space Policy
  15. 2009 – 2012RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  16. 2012 – 2014RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  17. 2012 – 2014RoleMinister for Foreign Affairs
  18. 2014RoleMinister for Foreign Affairs
  19. 2014 – 2017RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  20. 2015 – 2016RoleMinister for Foreign Affairs
  21. 2016 – 2017RoleMinister for Foreign Affairs
  22. 2017RoleMinister of Defense of Japan
  23. 2017 – 2020RoleChairperson of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party
  24. 2017 – 2021RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  25. 2017AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  26. 2021 – 2024RolePresident of the Liberal Democratic Party
  27. 2021RolePrime Minister of Japan
  28. 2021RoleMember of the House of Representatives of Japan
  29. 2021RoleMinister for Foreign Affairs
  30. 2022 – 2023RolePrime Minister of Japan
  31. 2023 – 2024RolePrime Minister of Japan
  32. 2023AwardGlobal Citizen Awards
  33. 2023AwardProfile in Courage Award
  34. 2024AwardNational Order of Merit
  35. 2024AwardOrder of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1957 – today).

  1. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  3. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  5. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  7. 1968Prague Spring
  8. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  9. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  10. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  13. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  14. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  15. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  16. 1985Schengen Agreement
  17. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  18. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  19. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  21. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  23. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  24. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  25. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  26. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  27. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  28. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  29. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  30. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  31. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  32. 20112011 Norway attacks
  33. 2011Libyan civil war
  34. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  35. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  36. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  38. 2015Paris Agreement
  39. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2020COVID-19 pandemic

Biography

Fumio Kishida (born 29 July 1957) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2021 until his resignation in 2024. He has represented Hiroshima 1st in the House of Representatives since 1996. Before his premiership, he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2017, as acting Minister of Defense in 2017, and he also chaired the LDP Policy Research Council from 2017 to 2020.

Born into a political family, Kishida spent part of his childhood in the United States, where he attended elementary school in New York City. After beginning his career in finance, Kishida entered politics and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1993 general election as a member of the LDP. Kishida was appointed to Minister of State for Special Missions in the premiership of Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda from 2007 to 2008, and was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2012 after Abe regained the premiership following the 2012 general election, serving for five years and becoming the longest-serving Foreign Affairs Minister in Japanese history. Kishida resigned from the Abe cabinet in 2017 in order to head the LDP's Policy Research Council. Kishida also assumed leadership of the LDP's more moderate Kōchikai faction in 2012 following the retirement of faction leader Makoto Koga, a position he held until his resignation in 2023. Long considered a potential future prime minister, Kishida ran in the 2020 LDP presidential election, but lost to Yoshihide Suga. He ran again for the party leadership in 2021, this time winning in a second round run-off against opponent Taro Kono. Kishida was confirmed as prime minister by the National Diet four days later on 4 October 2021.

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