Akira Nagatsuma

Okay, so Akira Nagatsuma is forever filed in my brain as "the pension guy," and honestly I mean that as a compliment. While other politicians chase the camera and the soundbite, this is the man who'd quietly stack up spreadsheets, cross-reference the numbers, and grind away at the lost-pension-records mess until something cracked. You can totally feel the ex-journalist in him, the reporter's instinct that no detail is too boring to chase, that the answer is buried somewhere in the boring paperwork everyone else skipped. He's not here to shout you down. He's here to wait, behind those glasses, until your story stops adding up. I kind of respect that patience.

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Akira Nagatsuma is a Japanese politician and journalist born on June 14, 1960, in Nerima, Tokyo. He studied law at Keio University after attending Tokyo Metropolitan Nerima High School. After working at NEC, he became a reporter for Nikkei Business before entering politics. He came to prominence by exposing missing public pension records and later served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Hatoyama and Kan.

Name (English)

Akira Nagatsuma

Name (Japanese)

長妻昭

Reading

ながつま あきら

Born

June 14, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

Nerima, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Politician / Journalist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

High school

Tokyo Metropolitan Nerima High School

University

Keio University, Faculty of Law

• Official sitehttps://naga.tv/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nagatsuma.akira/
• Xhttps://x.com/nagatsumaakira
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E5%A6%BB%E6%98%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263777

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Politician
• Journalist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.