Kazuma Nakatani

Honestly, the first thing that gets me about Kazuma Nakatani is that resume of his, which reads less like a career and more like four different lives stacked on top of each other: entrepreneur, political secretary, licensed judo therapist, and then a politician. I find that combination kind of disarming. A kid born in Kawaminami in Miyazaki, raised by a single mother in Kawasaki, who ends up in Keio's correspondence economics program and somewhere along the way also learns to literally set people's bones back into place? That's a guy who's seen the ground floor. He's clearly not the flashy made-for-TV type, and I like that. There's something quietly reassuring about someone who did the unglamorous work before stepping onto a bigger stage.

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Kazuma Nakatani is a Japanese entrepreneur, politician, and licensed judo therapist born on August 30, 1983, in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture. He graduated from the correspondence course of Kanagawa Prefectural Yokohama Hiranuma High School and enrolled in Keio University's correspondence economics program. He served in the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly and later in the House of Representatives for the Constitutional Democratic Party until 2026. He has an official website and accounts on Instagram and X.

Name (English)

Kazuma Nakatani

Name (Japanese)

中谷一馬

Reading

なかたに かずま

Born

August 30, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Entrepreneur / Politician / Secretary / Judo therapist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

High school

Kanagawa Prefectural Yokohama Hiranuma High School

University

Keio University, Faculty of Economics

• Official sitehttps://kazumanakatani.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kazuma_nakatani/
• Xhttps://x.com/kazuma_nakatani
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E8%B0%B7%E4%B8%80%E9%A6%AC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41770753

Tags

• From Miyazaki Prefecture
• Entrepreneur
• Politician
• Secretary

Last updated

October 18, 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.