Mitsuru Sakurai

Mitsuru Sakurai (桜井 充, Sakurai Mitsuru, born 1956) is a Japanese politician formerly of the Democratic Party of Japan and is now a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

He is a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

A native of Sendai, Miyagi, he attended Tokyo Medical and Dental University as an undergraduate and received a Ph.D. in medicine from Tohoku University.

He was made Deputy Treasury Minister in 2010.

This article about a Japanese politician born in the 1950s is a stub.

Mitsuru Sakurai
Mitsuru Sakurai (at the Central Government Building No.5 on November 13, 2012)