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.
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