Daizo Kusuda

Honestly, whenever I hear "Tokyo University graduate turned politician," my brain immediately pictures someone stiff and rehearsed, the kind of guy who speaks in perfectly structured sentences that somehow say nothing. But Daizo Kusuda — born 1975 in Fukuoka — feels a little different in my head, maybe because there's something about growing up in Kyushu that tends to knock the pretension out of you. He's a Taurus, which in my completely unscientific experience tends to mean stubborn in the best way: not flashy, not easily rattled, just quietly grinding. Politics rewards that more than people admit. I don't know enough of his specific policy record to call him a hero or a disappointment, but the fact that he keeps an active personal website and posts on social media suggests at least he's not hiding behind the curtain. Whether the Tokyo brain and the Fukuoka backbone actually add up to something meaningful for voters — that's the real test, and I'm cautiously curious.

Daizo Kusuda is a Japanese politician born on April 20, 1975, in Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. Further details about his active period and career milestones are not publicly available in current records.

Name (English)

Daizo Kusuda

Name (Japanese)

楠田大蔵

Reading

くすだ だいぞう

Born

April 20, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit (卯)

Origin

Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

University

University of Tokyo

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.daizoo.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/kusuda_daizoo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%A0%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%A7%E8%94%B5

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.