Keiji Furuya

Keiji Furuya has served in Japan's House of Representatives long enough that the duration is itself the story. Born in Tokyo in November 1952 and educated at Seikei University, he built his political base not in his home city but in Gifu, in the mountainous middle of the country. That gap between where a politician comes from and where the votes come from says something about how the system actually works. He has held portfolios that attract little glamour and permit no errors, serving as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and as the minister responsible for the North Korean abductions issue. I am not going to tell you what to think of his politics; people sort themselves on that fast enough. What is not arguable is the endurance. Voters kept sending him back, and electorally that is the only statistic that clears.

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Name (English)

Keiji Furuya

Name (Japanese)

古屋圭司

Reading

ふるや けいじ

Born

November 1, 1952 (age 73)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

University

Seikei University

• Official sitehttps://sites.google.com/view/furuya-keiji
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/furuya_keiji/
• Xhttps://x.com/Furuya_keiji
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji%20Furuya
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E5%B1%8B%E5%9C%AD%E5%8F%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1704969

Tags

• Tokyo
• politician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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