Toshitsugu Saito

Toshitsugu Saito
斉藤 斗志二
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office
5 December 2000 – 26 April 2001
Prime MinisterJunichiro Koizumi
Preceded byKazuo Torashima
Succeeded byGen Nakatani
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
1986
Personal details
Born (1944-12-27) 27 December 1944 (age 79)
Fuji, Shizuoka, Empire of Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
Alma materSophia University
Waseda University
University of Washington

Toshitsugu Saito (斉藤 斗志二, Saitō Toshitsugu, born December 27, 1944) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Fuji, Shizuoka and graduate of Sophia University, he attended Waseda University for graduate study and business school at the University of Washington in the United States. He was elected for the first time in 1986.

From 2001 to 2002 he was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Minister of Defense).