Gen Fukuda

Honestly, politicians can feel like they exist in some parallel universe, but something about Gen Fukuda breaks that spell a little. Born in 1981 in Kamogata-cho — a small, unhurried town on the Seto Inland Sea coast of Okayama — he then went to a commercial high school in Yokohama and ended up at a junior college all the way up in Hokkaido. That's a lot of Japan for one person, and I think that kind of geographic wandering quietly shapes you in ways a straight-line career never could. He worked his way from the Asakuchi city council to a term in the House of Representatives, and there's something I want to root for in someone who came up without obvious shortcuts, carried a coastal hometown in his bones, and decided politics was the way to make it matter.

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Gen Fukuda is a Japanese politician born on December 6, 1981, in Kamokata-cho, Okayama Prefecture. He attended Yokohama Municipal Yokohama Commercial High School before going on to Takushoku University Hokkaido Junior College. After serving on the Asakuchi city council from 2014 to 2018, he was a member of the House of Representatives from 2024 to 2026; he is married to former House of Councillors member Haruko Miyaguchi.

Name (English)

Gen Fukuda

Name (Japanese)

福田玄

Reading

ふくだ げん

Born

December 6, 1981 (age 44)

Origin

Kamokata-cho, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

High school

Yokohama Municipal Yokohama Commercial High School

University

Takushoku University Hokkaido Junior College

• Official sitehttps://gen-fukuda.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/gen_fukuda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E7%94%B0%E7%8E%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130760566

Tags

• From Okayama Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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