Tanigaki Teiichi

Tanigaki Seichi (March 7, 1945 -), Japanese politician. He served as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (47th generation), President of the Liberal Democratic Party (24th generation), and member of the House of Representatives of Japan (elected 11 times). He also served as Director of the Science and Technology Agency (58th term), Chairman of the Financial Revitalization Commission (3rd and 4th term), Chairman of the National Public Security Commission (69th term), Minister in charge of the Industrial Revitalization Agency, Minister of Finance (3rd, 4th, and 5th term), Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Political Coordination, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (9th term), and Minister of Justice (93rd term). In October 2005, he was elected as the president of the Tanigaki faction. Later, he merged with the Koga faction, another branch of the Hongchi Kai, and became the spokesperson of the faction. In 2012, it once again broke away from Hongchi Association and established Tanigaki Group (Youneighbor Association). Tanigaki Tanigaki is a native of Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto Prefecture, and is a second-generation hereditary member of parliament. His father Tanigaki Tanigaki once served as Minister of Education. He specializes in economic and fiscal policy.