1981

1981 Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Agriculture
BS in agricultural engineering

1986 Graduated from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management
MBA, majored in finance and international business

1981 to 1992　Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

1993

1996

2000

2003

2005

2005 Re-elected from Sixth District of Kanagawa prefecture (fifth term)
Senior Vice-Minster of Finance
Standing committees on Budget (director); Health, Welfare and Labor

2006

Chairman, Standing Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry

Parliamentary position
Director, Standing Committee on Audit and Administration Oversight
Member, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
Member, Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law

Party positions
Chair, Public Relations Committee; Vice-chair, International Committee
Vice-chairman, Policy Research Council
Chairman, Kanagawa Prefecture Headquarter

Isamu Ueda of the New Komei Party (NKP) was elected director of the Standing Committee on Audit and Administration Oversight in October, 2007. The committee is responsible in audit and certification of public accounts of revenue and expenditure of the State, in reference to the Board of Audit annual report. Its responsibility also includes oversight covering all administrative affairs to ensure their legitimate executions, including responses to the claims directly submitted by the people. He also belongs to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and to the Special Committee on Political Ethics and Election Law.

Ueda chaired the Standing Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry for one year until October, 2007, where he worked mainly on energy, product safety and small business policies. Ueda was the Senior Vice-Minister of Finance from September, 2004 to November, 2005; and Vice- Minister of Justice between July and December of 2000.

He serves his fifth term as member of the House of Representatives, elected from the Sixth District of Kanagawa Prefecture, which consists of the Wards of Hodogaya and Asahi in metropolitan Yokohama.

In NKP, Ueda is a member of the Executive Committee, and chair of the Public Relations Committee, and vice-chair of the International Affairs Committee. He is also the Chief Representative of the NKP Kanagawa Prefecture Headquarters. Ueda belongs to the inter-party parliamentarians’ leagues of Non-profit Organization Activities, Drug Abuse Prevention,　Death Penalty Abolition, etc. He has shown consistent interest in these areas and has participated in various activities in addition to his formal assignments.

Ueda was first elected to the national Diet in 1993 from the former First District of the Kanagawa Prefecture, under a multi-seat electoral system. During his first term, he belonged to the standing committees of Security, Agriculture, Labor, and Commerce. He was recognized as a young and active member in every committee. Ueda joined the New Frontier Party when it was founded in 1995, and later joined the NKP when the NFP was dissolved in 1997.

Ueda was re-elected in 1996 and 2000 from the proportional representation district of South Kanto Block. In his second term, he served as director of the Judicial Affairs Committee, between 1996 and 1999, where he co-sponsored and passed five member submitted bills. He also contributed to the modification and passage of a series of legislation to counter organizational crime, including money laundering prevention measures and wire tapping investigation methods. He belonged to the Special Committee for Financial Stabilization, in 1998, when Japan was in the verge of financial crisis. He played a critical role in the introduction of legislation to stabilize and revitalize the financial system, through injection of public funds and introduction of new measures to enhance reduction of non performing loans. He also introduced legislation to provide special soft loans to small businesses to counter the serious credit crunch.

In his third term, Ueda was appointed Vice-Minister of Justice, in July of 2000. While he was if service he worked mainly on revision of juvenile crime prevention policies and amendments of the Commercial Code to increase flexibility of corporate management. Between 2001and 2002, he served as director of the standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, and dealt with a wide range of diplomatic issues. He was also assigned to the Special Committee against Terrorism in 2001, and contributed in the passage of several critical anti-terrorism legislations and international treaties.

In his fourth term, he was appointed ranking member of the Standing Committee on Financial Affairs, and engaged in revision and introduction of several legislations aimed to revitalize financial institutions. He also introduced and passed two legislations that invest authority to the administration to enact economic sanctions against foreign states that pose serious threat to the safety of Japan. He has also belonged to the Committee on Judicial Affairs and Special Committee on Counter Attack Emergency Legislation.

Ueda is also very active in international programs. He has been a regular member of the US Japan Legislative Exchange Program since 1993, an unofficial discussion held between lawmakers of both countries twice every year, and a member of the Japan-UK 21st Century Committee. Ueda frequently participates in official and unofficial discussions with foreign politicians, diplomats, and academics.

Isamu Ueda was born on August 5, 1958, in Tokyo, as the second son of Hideyu Ueda and Chiyoko Seki. Hideyu, who was born in California, was a second generation Japanese American, and he served in the US military as a chemical engineer after graduating from University of Southern California. Isamu’s older brother, Robert Yoshikazu Ueda, born in 1952, graduated Boston University Medical School and practices surgery in Beverly Hills, California. The Ueda family moved to Yokohama in 1962, where he spent most of his life thereafter. Ueda attended and finished grade school at the St. Joseph International School in Yokohama. He graduated from Soka High School, in Kodaira, in 1977.

Ueda graduated the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tokyo in April of 1981, with a BS degree in Agricultural Engineering. He majored in irrigation engineering and rural planning. He immediately joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), where he served until December of 1992.

He earned a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) at Cornell University S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Business in Ithaca, New York, in May of 1986. He majored in corporate finance and quantitative analysis, and has written a paper on security and commodity option trade.

At MAFF, Ueda engaged in a variety of assignments, including trade negotiations with the USA on beef and citrus and Super 301 forest products between 1988 and 1990. He also served as a department director in Oita Prefecture, 1990 through 92. In 1987, he visited Sri Lanka twice in designing an agricultural development program implemented under financial assistance from Japan.

Ueda is married to Kosugiko Hagiwara and is father to one daughter and one son. The Ueda's now live in Hodogaya-ku of Yokohama. Kosugiko was born in 1958 in the city of Kawasaki and her parents now live in Kannami-cho, Shizuoka.

Ueda holds degrees of BS in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and MBA from Cornell University. He speaks both fluent Japanese and English.