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Shiozaki Akihisa

塩崎彰久

Senior Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation; LDP lower-house member

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About

Shiozaki Akihisa was born in Matsuyama, Ehime, in 1976. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, holds a master's degree in international policy from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School. He worked as a lawyer at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, focusing on corporate transactions and crisis management. In 2006 he served as secretary to his father, Shiozaki Yasuhisa, when he was Chief Cabinet Secretary.

He was first elected to the House of Representatives for Ehime's 1st district in October 2021 and won a third term in February 2026. He has served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. On 18 September 2026 he was appointed Senior Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation and Senior Vice-Minister of the Cabinet Office. In the LDP he is secretary-general of the AI and Web3 Subcommittee.

He was secretary-general of the LDP web3 project team from 2022. From December 2024 he led the party's web3 working group as web3 lead for the Digital Society Promotion Headquarters. On 6 March 2025 the group published a reform plan to treat crypto assets as a new asset class under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, separate from securities. The plan proposed disclosure and insider-trading rules for issuers, higher capital requirements for exchanges, and a move towards separate taxation at about 20%. The group took public comments until 31 March 2025.

Policy engagement

As web3 lead of the LDP Digital Society Promotion Headquarters, published a March 2025 reform plan treating crypto assets as a new asset class distinct from securities under the FIEA, with separate taxation, and opened it to public comment.

Source: Shiozaki's note: LDP web3 working group (Dec 2024 onwards)

Key actions

  1. Appointed Senior Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation and Senior Vice-Minister of the Cabinet Office.

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  2. As secretary-general, ran a joint meeting of the LDP AI and Web3 Subcommittee on yen stablecoins and crypto taxation with the FSA, JPYC and JCBA.

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  3. Told Toyo Keizai that moving crypto to a flat 20% separate tax was the central issue in the reform.

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  4. The LDP web3 working group he led published a plan to place crypto assets in the FIEA as a new asset class, with public comments open to 31 March 2025.

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  5. The LDP web3 working group he leads was set up, and he began publishing its materials on his note blog.

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