Takumi Nemoto


Takumi Nemoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.
A native of Kōriyama, Fukushima and graduate of the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Construction in 1974. Leaving the ministry in 1991 he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1993. Nemoto was appointed as Minister for Reconstruction in the Second Abe Cabinet on 26 December 2012.
Nemoto has served as the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2 October 2018 to 11 September 2019.