Ms. MATSUKAWA Rui
(Real Name: ARAI Rui)
- Liberal Democratic Party
- Elected 2016 and 2022, Osaka Prefecture
- Current Responsibilities in the House of Councillors
（as of December 6,2022)
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee on Budget
Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election System
Research Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Security (Director)
Commission on the Constitution
Born:
February 26, 1971, Oita Prefecture
Education:
1993 University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
1997 Georgetown University, Master of Science in
Foreign Service
Career:
1993 joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
First Secretary, Delegation of Japan to the Conference
on Disarmament in Geneva
Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Korea
2011 Deputy Secretary General, Japan-China-Korea
Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat in Seoul
2014 Director, Gender Mainstreaming Division, Foreign
Policy Bureau, MOFA
2016 elected to the House of Councillors
(as of July 30,2020)