Minoru Terada

Honestly, the first thing I noticed about Minoru Terada was Harvard — like, a kid from Hiroshima who ends up graduating from one of the most competitive universities on the planet, that just doesn't happen by accident. Born in 1958, so he's been around long enough to watch Japan transform through its bubble era, the crash, and everything after, and he spent more than two decades at the Ministry of Finance before entering politics, later serving as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications in 2022. There's a particular kind of quiet credibility that comes from a resume like his — he's not the flashy tweet-every-hour type of politician, more the guy who's actually done the reading and knows the spreadsheet cold. Hiroshima has a way of producing people with a certain groundedness to them, and I get that vibe from him. Not glamorous, not trying to be, just genuinely serious about the work.

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Minoru Terada is a Japanese politician born on January 24, 1958, in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from Harvard University, marking him as one of the more internationally educated figures in Japanese politics. He represents the Hiroshima region and maintains an official website as well as active social media accounts on Instagram and X.

Name (English)

Minoru Terada

Name (Japanese)

寺田稔

Reading

てらだ みのる

Born

January 24, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

University

Harvard University

• Official sitehttps://www.teradaminoru.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/terada.minoru/
• Xhttps://x.com/terada124
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BA%E7%94%B0%E7%A8%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6869306

Tags

• From Hiroshima Prefecture
• Politician

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.