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Shintaro Ito
伊藤 信太郎
Official portrait, 2023
Minister of the Environment
In office 13 September 2023 – 1 October 2024
Prime Minister	Fumio Kishida
Preceded by	Akihiro Nishimura
Succeeded by	Keiichiro Asao
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 19 December 2012 – 9 October 2024
Preceded by	Keiki Ishiyama
Succeeded by	Jun Azumi
Constituency	Miyagi 4th
In office 19 October 2001 – 21 July 2009
Preceded by	Soichiro Ito
Succeeded by	Keiki Ishiyama
Constituency	Miyagi 4th
Personal details
Born	(1953-05-06) 6 May 1953 (age 71) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Parent	Soichiro Ito (father)
Alma mater	Keio University Harvard University

Shintaro Ito (伊藤 信太郎, Itō Shintarō, born May 6, 1953) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo and graduate of Keio University, he received his master's degrees from Keio University and Harvard University and completed a program at the American Film Institute. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2001. He served as Minister of the Environment and as Minister in the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks (Nuclear Disaster Prevention) in the second reshuffled Cabinet of Prime Minister Kishida until the dissolution of the Cabinet on October 1, 2024.

In 1988, Ito directed development for a political video game, America Daitōryō Senkyo.

References

1. "ITO Shintaro". Prime Minister's Office of Japan. n.d.

• 政治家情報 〜伊藤 信太郎〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2007-10-16. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

External links

• Official website in Japanese.

v t e Environment Ministers of  Japan
Environment Agency Director General	Yamanaka Ōishi Koyama Miki Mōri Ozawa Marumo Ishihara Yamada Uemura Tsuchiya Kujiraoka Hara Kajiki Ueda Ishimoto Mori Inamura Horiuchi Aoki
Environment Agency Director General Director in Charge of Global Environmental Problems	Yamazaki Moriyama Shiga Kitagawa Aichi Nakamura Hayashi Hironaka Hata Hamayotsu Sakurai Miyashita Ōshima Iwatare Ishii Ōki Manabe Shimizu Kawaguchi
Minister of the Environment Minister in Charge of Global Environmental Problems	Kawaguchi Ōki Suzuki Koike Wakabayashi Kamoshita
Minister of the Environment	Saitō Ozawa Matsumoto Eda Hosono Nagahama Ishihara Mochizuki Marukawa Yamamoto Nakagawa Harada Koizumi Yamaguchi Nishimura Ito Asao

v t e Second Kishida Cabinet (Second Reshuffle) (13 September 2023 – 1 October 2024)
Fumio Kishida Junji Suzuki Takeaki Matsumoto Ryuji Koizumi Yōko Kamikawa Shun'ichi Suzuki Masahito Moriyama Keizō Takemi Ichiro Miyashita Tetsushi Sakamoto Yasutoshi Nishimura Ken Saitō Tetsuo Saito Shintaro Ito Minoru Kihara Hirokazu Matsuno Yoshimasa Hayashi Taro Kono Shinako Tsuchiya Yoshifumi Matsumura Ayuko Kato Yoshitaka Shindō Sanae Takaichi Hanako Jimi

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