Yoshitaka Murata
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is the Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
National Public Safety Commission
The National Public Safety Commission is the policy making and oversight body of the national police forces in Japan and South Korea.*National Public Safety Commission *National Public Safety Commission...

, the Minister of State for Disaster Management and the Minister of State for National Emergency Legislation in Japanese Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...

 Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...

's Cabinet.

Born in the city of Shizuoka, Murata graduated from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University
Kyoto University
, or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...

 and joined the Ministry of Finance in 1968. In 1990, he was elected to the House of Representatives
House of Representatives of Japan
The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

for the first time and, since September 2004 he has been on the present posts.

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