Norihiko Akagi

Norihiko Akagi is the kind of politician who makes you think twice about the word "career." Born in 1959 in Akeno, a quiet farming town in Ibaraki, he made it all the way through Tokyo University — that's not a small thing when you picture the rice paddies he came from. After a career at the agriculture ministry he inherited his grandfather Munenori Akagi's political base, won six straight elections from 1990, and served as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for two months in 2007. Quietly tenacious is how I'd read him.

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Norihiko Akagi is a Japanese former politician born on April 18, 1959, in Akeno, Ibaraki Prefecture. He attended Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School before going on to graduate from the University of Tokyo. He maintains an official website at akaginorihiko.com.

Name (English)

Norihiko Akagi

Name (Japanese)

赤城徳彦

Reading

あかぎ のりひこ

Born

April 18, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Akeno, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

High school

Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School

University

University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttp://www.akaginorihiko.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E5%9F%8E%E5%BE%B3%E5%BD%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351832

Tags

• From Ibaraki Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

November 2, 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.