Masato Shimizu

Masato Shimizu is the kind of politician who doesn't make you think "politician" — born in Takasaki, Gunma in 1975, raised under those famously brutal Joshu winds that apparently produce people with serious backbone. Meiji Gakuin University grad, Pisces, Year of the Rabbit — which, if you read into that combo at all, suggests someone who looks gentle on the surface but has a quiet stubbornness underneath that you only notice when it's too late to argue with him. He's not a headline-grabbing figure and that's almost the point: local politics run on the people who show up, knock on doors, listen to the same complaints for the fifteenth time, and still care enough to come back tomorrow. I don't know the granular details of his policy record, but a Gunma guy who keeps his roots and grinds for his community earns a base level of respect from me just for choosing that path over a shinier one.

Masato Shimizu is a Japanese politician born on February 26, 1975, in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. He attended Meiji Gakuin University for his undergraduate education. He maintains an official website and is active on social media platforms including Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Masato Shimizu

Name (Japanese)

清水真人

Reading

しみず まさと

Born

February 26, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit (卯)

Origin

Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

University

Meiji Gakuin University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.shimizumasato.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shimizu0310/
• Xhttps://x.com/shimizu_0310
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E6%B0%B4%E7%9C%9F%E4%BA%BA

Tags

• From Gunma 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.