Katsunobu Katō
Katsunobu Katō | |
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加藤 勝信 | |
Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Minister of Finance | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Shigeru Ishiba |
| Preceded by | Shun'ichi Suzuki |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
| In office 16 September 2020 – 4 October 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Yoshihide Suga |
| Preceded by | Yoshihide Suga |
| Succeeded by | Hirokazu Matsuno |
| Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare | |
| In office 10 August 2022 – 13 September 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Fumio Kishida |
| Preceded by | Shigeyuki Goto |
| Succeeded by | Keizō Takemi |
| In office 11 September 2019 – 16 September 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzo Abe |
| Preceded by | Takumi Nemoto |
| Succeeded by | Norihisa Tamura |
| In office 3 August 2017 – 2 October 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzo Abe |
| Preceded by | Yasuhisa Shiozaki |
| Succeeded by | Takumi Nemoto |
| Minister of State for Measures for Declining Birthrate | |
| In office 7 October 2015 – 3 August 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Shinzo Abe |
| Preceded by | Haruko Arimura |
| Succeeded by | Masaji Matsuyama |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 10 November 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Multi-member district |
| Constituency | Chūgoku PR (2003–2009) Okayama 5th (2009–2024) Okayama 3rd (2024–present) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Katsunobu Murosaki 22 November 1955 Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Spouse | Shuko Kato |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Mutsuki Kato (father-in-law) Takenori Kato (uncle-in-law) Koko Kato (sister-in-law) |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (BEc) |
| Occupation | Economist • Politician |
Katsunobu Katō (加藤 勝信, Katō Katsunobu; born 22 November 1955) is a Japanese politician. He was served as the Minister of Finance under Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba since October 2024. Previously, he was served as the three-time Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare under Shinzo Abe from 2017 to 2018 and from 2019 to 2020, and under Fumio Kishida from 2022 to 2023, and as the Chief Cabinet Secretary under Yoshihide Suga from 2020 to 2021. Belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party, he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2003.
Born and raised in Tokyo and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Kato had a bureaucratic career in the Ministry of Finance before going into politics.