Fukushiro Nukaga

Fukushiro Nukaga
額賀 福志郎
Nukaga in 2023
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 October 2023
Monarch	Naruhito
Deputy	Banri Kaieda Kōichirō Genba
Preceded by	Hiroyuki Hosoda
Minister of Finance
In office 27 August 2007 – 2 August 2008
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded by	Kōji Omi
Succeeded by	Bunmei Ibuki
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 31 October 2005 – 26 September 2006
Prime Minister	Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by	Yoshinori Ohno
Succeeded by	Fumio Kyūma
In office 30 July 1998 – 20 November 1998
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi
Preceded by	Fumio Kyūma
Succeeded by	Hosei Norota
Ministry of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
In office 6 January 2001 – 23 January 2001
Prime Minister	Yoshirō Mori
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Tarō Asō
Head of the Economic Planning Agency
In office 5 December 2000 – 6 January 2001
Prime Minister	Yoshirō Mori
Preceded by	Taichi Sakaiya
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 5 October 1999 – 4 July 2000
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi Yoshirō Mori
Preceded by	Muneo Suzuki
Succeeded by	Shinzō Abe
In office 11 September 1997 – 30 July 1998
Prime Minister	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by	Yosano Kaoru
Succeeded by	Muneo Suzuki
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 December 1983
Constituency	Ibaraki 2nd (1996–2009; 2012–present) former Ibaraki 1st (1983–1996) Northern Kanto PR block (2009–2012)
Personal details
Born	(1944-01-11) 11 January 1944 (age 80) Asō, Ibaraki, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Children	3
Alma mater	Waseda University

Fukushiro Nukaga (額賀 福志郎, Nukaga Fukushirō, born 11 January 1944) is a Japanese politician who is serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives since October 2023. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1983 and represents Ibaraki's 2nd district.^[1] He was previously the Minister of Finance from 2007 to 2008,^[2] and served twice as Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary.