Motohisa Furukawa

Motohisa Furukawa's résumé reads like a checklist for the Japanese establishment: born in Nagoya in 1965, Asahigaoka High School, the University of Tokyo, then the Ministry of Finance in 1988, with a stint at Columbia University as a ministry official. On paper that is the most conventional path imaginable into Japanese politics. What interests me is what he did with it. He left the bureaucracy for elected office and has spent his career in the House of Representatives, currently with the Democratic Party for the People — a smaller party in a system where the LDP has dominated for most of the postwar era. Japan's opposition parties have splintered, merged and renamed themselves so many times that following any one politician through them is genuinely hard work. Surviving that churn while holding a Nagoya seat says something about local trust that no CV can capture. Finance-ministry alumni tend to be the ones who actually read the budget documents, and legislatures need people like that even if they never trend online.

Name (English)

Motohisa Furukawa

Name (Japanese)

古川元久

Reading

ふるかわ もとひさ

Born

December 6, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Origin

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

politician

High school

Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka Senior High School

University

University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttps://www.furukawa.cc/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/motohisa_furukawa/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motohisa%20Furukawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E5%B7%9D%E5%85%83%E4%B9%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1949760

Tags

• Aichi Prefecture
• politician

Last updated

2026-08-07

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