Ichiro Aisawa

Ichiro Aisawa has been a member of Japan's House of Representatives since 1986 — first elected in the closing years of the Showa era, which is to say he has been in the Diet longer than many voters have been alive. Born in 1954 in Mitsu, Okayama Prefecture, and educated at Keio University, he has spent that career with the Liberal Democratic Party. I'll be honest about the limits of what the record here shows: he is not the sort of politician who generates headlines abroad, and the profile is thin on colour. But longevity like that is itself information. Japanese politics rewards visibility, and the loudest figures are the ones outsiders learn first — yet a legislature runs on the people who keep getting returned by their district for decades because the district trusts them. Roughly four decades of that is not an accident. Aisawa belongs to the quieter substructure of postwar Japanese governance, and that is worth noticing precisely because it rarely announces itself.

Name (English)

Ichiro Aisawa

Name (Japanese)

逢沢一郎

Reading

あいさわ いちろう

Born

June 10, 1954 (age 72)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Horse

Origin

Mitsu, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

politician

University

Keio University

• Official sitehttps://www.aisawa.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/ichiroaisawa
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro%20Aisawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%A2%E6%B2%A2%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467453

Tags

• Okayama Prefecture
• politician

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.