＜Current Position＞
・Member of House of Representatives（7th times）
・Minister for Digital Transformation
・Minister in Charge of Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform
・Minister in charge of Administrative Reform
・Minister in charge of the National Civil Service System
・Minister in charge of Cybersecurity
・Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
・Minister of State for Cybersecurity
・Chairperson, Policy Research Council, Federation of Tokyo Prefecture LDP Party Branches

＜Career History＞
・Graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Law
・3rd generation middle wholesaler at Ota Fruit and Vegetable Market
・President, Tokyo Junior Chamber
・Lecturer at Keio University Graduate School
・Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
・State Minister of Cabinet Office (in charge of disaster prevention, administrative reform, IT policy, space policy, Promotion of Science and Technology and Innovation, Cool Japan Strategy, local development, National Strategic Special Zones, etc.)
・Head, Project Team on the web3, LDP
・Head, Project Team on the Evolution and Implementation of AI, LDP
・Head, Fusion Energy Project Team, LDP
・Secretary General, New Capitalism Implementation Headquarters, LDP

・Education
1985 Graduated from CSE of ENA(France)
1982 Graduated from the Faculty of Law, The
University of Tokyo
・Career
2023- Acting Chairperson (senior) Policy Research
Council
2022- Deputy Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
Chairperson, Research Commission on the Finance and Banking Systems
2019- Acting Chairperson, General Council, LDP
Chairperson, Special Committee on Foreign Workers, LDP
2018-2019
Minister of State for Regional Revitalization
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
Minister of State for Gender Equality
Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment Minister in charge of Regional
Revitalization
2016 Acting chairman, Policy Research Council, LDP
2015 Vice-chairman, General Council, LDP
2014 Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, House of Councillors (HC)
2013 Director, Environment Division, LDP
2012 Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
2010 Elected to the member of the House of Councillors
2005 Elected for the first time as a member of the 44th House of Representatives
(Shizuoka 7th District)
Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
2004 Budget Examiner, Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance
2003 Director for Legal Affairs, Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance
1989 Director, Kaita Regional Tax Office

Bill to ensure a safe and secure environment for women in women’s space
１．Background and Objectives
 In October 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that the provision that requires "the absence of
gonads or a permanent lack of gonad function" in the law that stipulates the conditions for
gender change in Japan is unconstitutional.
 In response to this, concerns have been raised that "men who identify themselves as
women may enter women's restrooms and commit crimes," and that "women's safety and
security may be at risk."
 In response to these concerns, we are considering submitting the bill to ensure a safe and
secure environment for women.
２．Outline of the bill
 For public baths and changing rooms etc., which are used by many people without wearing
clothes, measures will be taken by the relevant ministries and managers of such facilities,
regarding the separate use of facilities by men and women, based on the premise that men
and women are distinguished by physical characteristics.
 In facilities that are normally used by men and women separately, such as restrooms,
managers of such facilities will be required to make efforts to take necessary measures,
such as providing necessary equipments and patrols, to ensure a safe and secure
environment for women to use the facilities.

Born: July 15, 1952, in Hyogo Prefecture
Education: BA in Sociology, Cairo University (October 1976)



Career

July 2024: Re-elected to a third term as Governor of Tokyo
July 2020: Re-elected to a second term as Governor of Tokyo
July 2016: Elected Governor of Tokyo
October 2011: Director, Committee on Budget, House of Representatives
September 2010: Chairperson, General Council, Liberal Democratic Party
July 2007: Minister of Defense
September 2006: Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs
September 2004: Minister of the Environment and Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
September 2003: Minister of the Environment
July 1993: Member of the House of Representatives
July 1992: Member of the House of Councillors

Yoshitaka Kitao is the President and CEO of SBI Holdings Inc. He earned degrees from both Keio University (1974) and Cambridge University (1978). Prior to his role at SBI, he has held multiple positions within Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (1974-1995) as well as Softbank Corporation (1995-1999). Kitao became the Representative Director, President of SOFTBANK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, currently SBI Holdings Inc., in 1999, and has led the company to become one of the biggest financial conglomerate in Japan.

Aya Miyaguchi
President, Ethereum Foundation
Aya was originally drawn to the blockchain space for its potential to advance financial inclusion in emerging economies. In 2013, she joined Kraken and helped educate the public, regulators, investors, and media as Managing Director of Japan. Driven by a passion for creating lasting impact, she joined the Ethereum Foundation as Executive Director in 2018. There, she led efforts to support the Ethereum ecosystem through core research and development activities, funding and guidance, and cross-sector education. In 2025, Aya became President of the Ethereum Foundation, where she focuses on cultivating institutional relationships and continues to help Ethereum maintain its soul as an Infinite Garden — a decentralized creative space that is open-source, inclusive, and permissionless.

Arthur Hayes is the CIO of Maelstrom, a family office that invests across the crypto ecosystem. He is also the co-founder of BitMEX – the first crypto unicorn. Prior to entering the crypto industry, he worked as a trader in the capital markets divisions of Deutsche Bank and Citibank. Arthur holds a Bachelors of Economics from the Wharton School of Business. He has appeared on major business news networks including Bloomberg and CNBC. He is active on X (@cryptohayes) and releases a monthly newsletter (Crypto Trader Digest) read by thousands of investors globally.

The Honorable Caroline D. Pham is the acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and has been a
CFTC Commissioner since her nomination by the President and unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Pham is an internationally recognized leader in strategy and innovation, with deep expertise in capital markets and
regulatory policy. Her commissionership has focused on promoting access to markets, competition, and market liquidity and efficiency. Pham has worked in law and finance for 24 years, including over 10 years of experience in crypto and digital assets. She is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Pham’s experience spans prudential regulation, financial markets, fintech, and emerging issues. Her international
engagement is across all regions, both multilateral and with senior policymakers and business leaders. Previously, Pham
was a managing director at Citi with group-level senior executive roles in the chief administrative office, institutional
clients group (banking and markets), legal, and compliance. As head of market structure for strategic initiatives, she
worked on investments and new opportunities. Pham has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington
University Law School.

Haseeb is Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a multibillion dollar leading crypto VC firm, and is a longtime technology-focused crypto investor. Haseeb was previously a General Partner at Metastable Capital (now acquired by Dragonfly). Prior, Haseeb founded a stablecoin startup, was a blockchain engineer at Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), an anti-fraud engineer at Airbnb, and was previously a top 10 globally ranked professional poker player. He has taught a class on web3 Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and is widely followed for his technical expertise in crypto.

Hayden Adams is the Founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs and inventor of the Uniswap Protocol, the largest decentralized exchange protocol. He began building in crypto in 2017. As his first project, he set out to build an application that fully embodied the unique properties of Ethereum: decentralized, trustless, permissionless, and secure. This project eventually became Uniswap. As of 2025, the Uniswap Protocol has processed over $3 trillion in lifetime trading volume. It competes head-on with centralized exchanges, offering 2x more liquidity than both Binance and Coinbase (two of the largest centralized exchanges) for popular pairs like Ethereum to stablecoin trades.Today, Uniswap Labs contributes to the development of the Uniswap Protocol and builds products for users to safely and securely access DeFi — including the Uniswap Interface and the Uniswap Wallet, which collectively have served millions of users.

Michael Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, a diversified financial services firm dedicated to the digital asset, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry. He was formerly a Partner and the President of Fortress Investment Group LLC and ran the Fortress Macro fund from 2002 – 2016. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Novogratz spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998. He served on the New York Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets from 2012 – 2015.

In recent years, Mr. Novogratz has made criminal justice reform the primary focus of his family’s foundation, Galaxy Gives. He served as the Chairman of The Bail Project and is a Founding Partner of REFORM Foundation. He has held roles as a Leadership Council Member at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership and on the boards of Hudson River Park Friends, Jazz Foundation of America, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club and USA Wrestling. Mr. Novogratz received an AB in Economics from Princeton University and served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army.

Heath Tarbert is President at Circle (NYSE: CRCL), a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce.

Heath joined Circle after serving as Chief Legal Officer for Citadel Securities, where he was responsible for the firm’s global legal, compliance, surveillance, regulatory affairs, and corporate governance functions.

Earlier, he was the 14th Chairman and Chief Executive of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Vice Chairman of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). He was previously Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets, concurrently serving as G-7/G-20 Deputy Finance Minister, a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and U.S. executive director of the World Bank Group.

Heath has served as a Supreme Court law clerk, associate White House counsel, special counsel to the Senate Banking Committee, and a partner at two international law firms.

Heath is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Law Institute. He is also a life member of the National Eagle Scout Association and Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his BS from Mount St. Mary’s University, his JD and SJD from the University of Pennsylvania, and his DPhil from Oxford University.

Nikhil heads growth globally for Kinexys Digital Assets, J.P. Morgan's digital assets platform that enables clients to develop innovative solutions using tokenized traditional assets. As a Senior Product Manager, he led the development of two solutions on the platform from concept to market launch. A tokenization enthusiast, Nikhil has authored papers on tokenization applications in capital markets and alternative investment funds. He actively participates in industry working groups shaping standards and operating models to increase velocity, efficiency, and effectiveness of cross-asset settlements through tokenization. Nikhil joined J.P. Morgan in 2019 as part of the pioneering blockchain product and strategy team that launched Kinexys, the firm's dedicated blockchain business unit. Prior to J.P. Morgan, he was with SinoPac Securities Asia Ltd., structuring lifecycle solutions for alternative investment funds. Nikhil combines over a decade of traditional finance expertise with deep blockchain knowledge to reimagine financial models.

An Electronics and Telecommunications engineer by training, he holds an MBA from the University of Hong Kong and London Business School.

H.E. Justin Sun is the Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO, Founder of TRON, one of the world's largest blockchain DAO ecosystems, and Advisor to HTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. A protege of Alibaba's Jack Ma, Sun has been named Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Consumer Technology category several times, among other global recognitions. Sun is an avid art collector, gamer, investor, philanthropist, and space enthusiast.

Co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back, invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, as the future basis for its mining function. Throughout his two-decade-long vocation as an applied cryptographer and security architect, he has held senior roles with a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, EMC, PI, VMware, and Zero-Knowledge Systems, as well as advised many more companies on cryptography and peer-to-peer finance. Dr. Adam Back holds a computer science Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.

Joined Salomon Brothers in 1987, moved to Goldman Sachs in 1990, and became a partner at the age of 30 in 1994. In 1999, co-founded Monex, Inc. in partnership with Sony, and established Monex Group, Inc. in 2004. Monex Group operates a wide range of businesses, including Monex Securities and TradeStation Securities, which are retail online brokerage firms in Japan and the U.S., as well as Japan Catalyst, which specializes in engagement asset management. Additionally, the group provides Web3 support services, full-genome-related services, and human resource development businesses. Monex Group also has Coincheck Group, listed on the NASDAQ in the U.S., as a subsidiary, under which Coincheck, one of Japan's largest digital asset exchanges, operates. Served as an external board member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange for five years and participated in government committees related to governance reform, actively contributing to the improvement and reform of Japan’s capital markets. An outside director of Mastercard in the U.S. and a former Vice Chair of Human Rights Watch.

Nischint is the head of Digital Currencies in Asia Pacific for Visa. Based in Singapore, he oversees Visa’s digital currency business performance in Asia Pacific, including partnership strategies and developing new crypto business streams for Visa’s Digital Currencies business. Nischint is a subject matter expert on digital currency and web 3.0 engagements with key stakeholders such as banks, fintechs, regulators and blockchain infrastructure companies. As part of his portfolio, he is also responsible for emerging Central Bank Digital Currency and tokenized deposit products, leading Visa’s go-to-market efforts in the region. Nischint has over 22 years of experience in financial services having worked across multiple streams through the years.

Armani Ferrante is the founder and CEO of Backpack. The Backpack ecosystem is composed of Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, and Backpack Exchange. Before founding Backpack in April 2022, he was the creator of Anchor, a groundbreaking developer tool that revolutionized programing on Solana. Anchor has become an integral part of numerous Solana projects and protocols, and bonding its commitments to simplifying the developer experience. Armani graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and before dedicating all his effort into crypto and web3, he used to work for Apple as a software engineer.

Katherine Dowling is on the Executive Management team and is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Bitwise Asset Management. She previously served in General Counsel, CCO, and COO roles at several financial and private equity firms, and was a co-founder, Managing Director and COO of Luminate Capital Partners, a software private equity firm in San Francisco. A Harvard Law School graduate, Ms. Dowling spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where she worked with the FBI, SEC, IRS and other agencies to prosecute insider trading, fraud, and money laundering cases, among others. She serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations.

A veteran technology entrepreneur/investor based in Hong Kong, Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in blockchain and gaming with the mission to deliver digital property rights to the world's gamers and Internet users, thereby creating a new asset class, play-and-earn economies, and a more equitable digital framework contributing to the building of the open metaverse. Yat began his career at Atari Germany in 1990. In 1995 he moved to Hong Kong to establish Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998 he set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. In 2009, he sold Outblaze’s messaging unit to IBM and pivoted Outblaze to become an incubator of projects and companies to develop digital entertainment services and products. One of those incubated companies is Animoca Brands, which was created in 2014. In 2017 he set up the Dalton Learning Lab, an afterschool digital lab for skills not emphasized by most education systems, including divergent thinking and design thinking. He is the founder of ThinkBlaze, the research arm of Outblaze investigating socially meaningful issues in technology. Since 2018, Yat has been an early advocate for the use of blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the gaming industry, which will allow gamers to enjoy true ownership of their own game assets, data, and, consequently, equity. With a clear vision of the potential of decentralized apps and assets, Yat quickly steered Animoca Brands to a leadership position in blockchain, gaming, NFTs, and the open metaverse. Animoca Brands operates a series of NFT-centric subsidiaries and products, and has invested in over 540 blockchain-related companies to build one of the largest blockchain portfolios in the world. Yat has earned numerous accolades including Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards, and recognition as one of the Cointelegraph top 100 notable people in blockchain. A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.

Laurence Moroney is an award-winning AI researcher and best-selling author. He's teacher to millions of AI practitioners worldwide through online courses and books with Coursera, LinkedIn, Harvard University, and more. Laurence works as Director of AI at Arm, where he's focussing on next-generation AI and AI solutions. He's also an advisor to many startups in the AI and crypto spaces, based in Seattle, USA.

Noah joined Binance in 2023 as its Global Chief Compliance Officer. Before Binance, he worked at Gemini, first as CCO and then as Chief Operating Officer. He also served as President and CEO of the Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Before starting in crypto, he was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Financial Crimes at Morgan Stanley, where he had legal and compliance responsibility for the Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Boycott, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities programs.


Earlier in his career he was the Division Counsel for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division. Prior to his stint with DEA he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York where he held several supervisory posts including Special Coordinator for Crimes against Children and Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section.