FORA.tv Speaker - Heizo Takenaka

Heizo Takenaka (b. March 3, 1951) is the Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy and the Minister of State for Privatization of the Postal Services in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet. Having B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University and Ph.D. in Economics from Osaka University, Takenaka taught in Keio University before he was picked up by Koizumi to become the Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy as an academic in 2001, and he has since been on the same position.