Taro Kono

Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister for Cybersecurity

KONO Taro, 60, a ninth-term Member of the House of Representatives, has been appointed Minister for Digital Transformation, Minister for Cyber Security and Minister for Administrative Affairs.

Among positions he has held in the past are Foreign Minister; Defense Minister; Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out; Minister for Administrative Affairs; Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, or Minister in charge of the National Police Organization; Minister for Civil Service Reform; Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety; Minister for Disaster Management; and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. He is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.