Nobuteru Ishihara

Nobuteru Ishihara speaking in Saitama Prefecture, July 2010

Nobuteru Ishihara (石原 伸晃, Ishihara Nobuteru, born April 19, 1957) is a Japanese politician.

He was born in Zushi, Kanagawa, the son of author Shintaro Ishihara (now Governor of Tokyo). He attended Keio Gijuku High School and graduated from the literature faculty of Keio University in 1981. After university, he worked as a political reporter for Nippon Television, covering the Finance and Foreign Ministries and the Prime Minister.

In 1990 he was elected to the House of Representatives as representative for the Fourth District of Tokyo under the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ticket. He was appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1996. Under Junichiro Koizumi's first Cabinet in 2001, he became Minister of State for Administrative and Regulatory Reform. He served as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport from 2003 to 2004, and is currently chairman of the Highways Committee of the LDP Policy Affairs Research Council.

Following Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's resignation, Ishihara stood as a candidate for the LDP presidency. In the leadership election, held on September 22, 2008, Taro Aso won with 351 of the 527 votes; Ishihara placed fourth with 37 votes.

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Political offices
Preceded by Chikage Oogi	Minister of Land，Infrastructure，Transport of Japan 2003-2004	Succeeded by Kazuo Kitagawa
Preceded by Ryutaro Hashimoto	Minister of State for Regulatory Reform 2001-2003	Succeeded by Kazuyoshi Kaneko
Party political offices
Preceded by Tadamori Ōshima	Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party 2010–	Incumbent
Preceded by Shoichi Nakagawa	Policy Affairs Research Council Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party 2007	Succeeded by Sadakazu Tanigaki
House of Representatives of Japan
New district	Representative for Tokyo's 8th district 1996 –	Incumbent
Preceded by Shigeru Kasuya Ichirō Takahashi Zenmei Matsumoto Mitsu Kaneko Naohiko Ōkubo	Representative for Tokyo's 4th district (multi-member) 1990 – 1996 Served alongside: Hiroshi Yamada, Zenmei Matsumoto, Shigeru Kasuya, Ichirō Takahashi, Tamako Toguchi, Masato Okita	District eliminated