Yoshimi Watanabe

Yoshimi Watanabe
渡辺 喜美
Watanabe in 2010
Minister of State for Financial Services
In office 27 August 2007 – 2 August 2008
Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded by	Yuji Yamamoto
Succeeded by	Toshimitsu Motegi
Minister for Administrative Reform
In office 28 December 2006 – 2 August 2008
Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded by	Genichiro Sata
Succeeded by	Toshimitsu Motegi
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
In office 28 December 2006 – 27 August 2007
Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe
Preceded by	Genichiro Sata
Succeeded by	Fumio Kishida
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 26 July 2016 – 25 July 2022
Constituency	National PR block
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 21 October 1996 – 21 November 2014
Preceded by	Inaugural holder
Succeeded by	Kazuo Yana
Constituency	Tochigi 3rd district
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-17) 17 March 1952 (age 72) Nasushiobara, Tochigi, Japan
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Liberal Democratic Party (1995–2009) Your Party (2009–2014) Nippon Ishin no Kai (2016–2019)

Yoshimi Watanabe (渡辺 喜美, Watanabe Yoshimi, born 17 March 1952) is a Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and later the founder of Your Party, after which he became a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai until 2019 when he then became an independent politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2014, and returned to the Diet (national legislature) in 2016 as a member of the House of Councillors.^[1]