Takao Fujii

Takao Fujii
藤井 孝男
Official portrait, 1997
Minister of Transport
In office 11 September 1997 – 30 July 1998
Prime Minister	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by	Makoto Koga
Succeeded by	Jiro Kawasaki
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 21 December 2012 – 21 November 2014
Constituency	Tōkai PR
In office 19 July 1993 – 8 August 2005
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Kazuyoshi Kaneko
Constituency	Gifu 2nd (1993–1996) Gifu 4th (1996–2000; 2003–2005) Tōkai PR (2000–2003)
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 29 July 2007 – 4 December 2012
Preceded by	Tsuyako Ōno
Succeeded by	Yasutada Ōno
Constituency	Gifu at-large
In office 1 February 1981 – 18 June 1993
Preceded by	Heigo Fujii
Succeeded by	Junichi Kasahara
Constituency	Gifu at-large
Personal details
Born	(1943-03-14) 14 March 1943 (age 81) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	LDP (1981–2005; 2007–2010; 2016–present)
Other political affiliations	Independent (2005–2007) Sunrise (2010–2012) JRP (2012–2014) PFG (2014–2016)
Alma mater	Seijo University

Takao Fujii (藤井 孝男, Fujii Takao, born March 14, 1943) is a former Japanese politician, an independent and member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Fuji is a native of Shirakawa, Gifu and graduated from Seijo University.

Fujii was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1981 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. After serving in the House of Representatives for four terms from 1993 until 2005 when he lost re-election, he was elected again to the House of Councillors in 2007.

Fujii joined the Sunrise Party of Japan on April 10, 2010. In 2012 that party merged with another party to become the Japan Restoration Party. In 2014 the former Sunrise Party members, led by Shintaro Ishihara and including Fujii, split from the Restoration Party to form the Party for Future Generations. He was appointed as the inaugural chairman of the party's executive council and also head of the party's electoral strategy committee. In the December 2014 general election he was the party's candidate for the Tokai proportional block but lost his seat. After the election he replaced Hiroyuki Sonoda as an advisor to the party.

In September 2015 he left the Party for Future Generations and submitted an application to the Gifu Prefecture branch of the Liberal Democratic Party and was granted re-entry to the party.^[1]

• 政治家情報 〜藤井 孝男〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-01. Retrieved 2007-11-17.

• Official website in Japanese.

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