Shin Tsuchida

Shin Tsuchida was born on 30 October 1990 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, studied at Kyoto University, and has represented Tokyo's 13th district in the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party since 2021. The detail that makes him worth noting internationally is a generational one: together with Yuki Baba, he was among the first members of Japan's National Diet born in the Heisei era. Japan measures time in imperial eras, and that gives political generations unusually sharp edges. For decades the Diet was staffed entirely by people born under Shōwa; Tsuchida's election marked the moment the next era finally arrived in the chamber. It is an accident of a birth date, but it is also a real marker. I'd be cautious about drawing conclusions beyond that. He is early in his career, and the public record is still thin — there isn't much of a legislative body of work to assess yet. What is certain is that the "first of his generation" label will follow him permanently, and what he does with that framing is the part still to be written.

Name (English)

Shin Tsuchida

Name (Japanese)

土田慎

Reading

つちだ しん

Born

October 30, 1990 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

Origin

Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

member of the House of Representatives of Japan

University

Kyoto University

• Official sitehttps://www.tsuchida-shin.jp/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Tsuchida
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E7%94%B0%E6%85%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109345880

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• member of the House of Representatives of Japan

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.