Shun'ichi Mizuoka

He graduated from Nara University of Education, and I find that detail more telling than it first appears. A background rooted in education tends to shape how a politician frames problems, even decades later. Shunichi Mizuoka was born in 1956 in Takeno, a town on the Sea of Japan side of Hyogo Prefecture, and went to Toyooka High School before university. That is not a metropolitan launchpad, and coming from a smaller coastal community usually leaves a mark on which issues a legislator treats as urgent. He served in the House of Councillors as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and is now a former member. National politics looks glamorous from outside, but the substance of it is committee sessions, drafting, and endless returns to the home district. Most of that work is invisible, which is precisely why the people who do it steadily deserve to be recorded somewhere.

Name (English)

Shun'ichi Mizuoka

Name (Japanese)

水岡俊一

Born

June 13, 1956 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Takeno, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

politician

High school

Toyooka High School

University

Nara University of Education

• Official sitehttps://mizuoka.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/smizuoka/
• Xhttps://x.com/mizuokakouenkai
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunichi%20Mizuoka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E5%B2%A1%E4%BF%8A%E4%B8%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7505073

Tags

• Hyōgo Prefecture
• politician

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.