Nobuo Kishi


Nobuo Kishi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

A political dynasty

Nobuo is the younger brother, grandson, and grandnephew of Prime Ministers:
Shintaro Abe is his father. Nobuo is the third son, the other one being Hironobu Abe, who works at Mitsubishi Corporation.
Nobuo was adopted into his maternal parents' family soon after his birth. His adoptive father and Nobusuke Kishi's eldest son, Nobukazu Kishi, was chairman of Seibu Oil.
His other grandfather, Hiroshi Abe, was also a politician.

Ancestry

Career

A native of Tokyo, Kishi joined Sumitomo Corporation after graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University in 1981.
He left the company in 2002, after working in the United States, Vietnam, Australia...
Kishi was elected for the first time in 2004, and served as Parliamentary Secretary for Defense, Vice Chairman, LDP Diet Affairs Committee in the House of Councillors, Vice Chairman, Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters of LDP, Chairman, Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems of Diet.

Positions

Like his brother Shinzō, Nobuo Kishi is affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, and a member of the following right-wing groups at the Diet:
Kishi gave the following answers to the questionnaire submitted by Mainichi to parliamentarians in 2012: