Toshimitsu Motegi

A newspaper reporter, then a consultant, then a politician: Motegi's career reads like three lives stacked into one. He has run the trade ministry, the foreign ministry, and his party's organisation, which is another way of saying he gets handed the fights nobody else wants. Not a charmer, but a closer who wins arguments with numbers.

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Name (English)

Toshimitsu Motegi

Name (Japanese)

茂木敏充

Reading

もてぎ としみつ

Born

October 7, 1955 (age 70)

Origin

Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

politician / journalist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Goat

High school

Tochigi Prefectural Ashikaga Senior High School

University

Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttps://motegi.gr.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/toshimitsu.motegi/
• Xhttps://x.com/moteging
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshimitsu%20Motegi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8C%82%E6%9C%A8%E6%95%8F%E5%85%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1655453

Tags

• Tochigi Prefecture
• politician
• journalist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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