Yoshiaki Takaki

Yoshiaki Takaki
高木 義明
Official portrait, 2010
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
In office 17 September 2010 – 2 September 2011
Prime Minister	Naoto Kan
Preceded by	Tatsuo Kawabata
Succeeded by	Masaharu Nakagawa
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 1990 – 28 September 2017
Constituency	Former Nagasaki 1st (1990–1996) Kyushu PR (1996–2000; 2012–2017) Nagasaki 1st (2000–2012)
Member of the Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly
In office April 1987 – January 1990
Constituency	Nagasaki City
Member of the Nagasaki City Assembly
In office April 1975 – April 1987
Personal details
Born	(1945-12-22) 22 December 1945 Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Political party	DPP
Other political affiliations	DSP New Frontier New Fraternity DPJ DP

Yoshiaki Takaki (高木 義明, Takaki Yoshiaki; born December 22, 1945) is a former Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi and high-school graduate he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1990 after serving in the union executive and local assemblies for 15 years.

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2018)

• 政治家情報 〜高木 義明〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-02.

• Official website in Japanese.