Kisaburo Tokai

Kisaburo Tokai (Japanese渡海 纪 三 朗, Tokai Kisaburo; born February 11, 1948 in Takasago, Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and was from 2007 to 2008 Minister of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology.

Tokai is the oldest son of former LDP politician and Minister Tokai Motosaburō. He studied at Waseda University. Subsequently, he worked at the architectural firm Nikken Sekkei. 1985 his father died, Tokai was secretary of the deputies and then Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe. A year later, in 1986, he was a candidate in the constituency of his father (3rd constituency, Hyōgo Prefecture; since the electoral reform 1996: 10th constituency) for the lower house. When he resigned in 1993 from the LDP and participated in the founding of the New Party Sakigake, he lost in the 1996 election following the new Einmandatswahlkreis, but won it in 2000 after his return to the LDP and was re-elected in 2003 and 2005. Within the party he belonged to the Yamasaki faction.

In September 2007, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda appointed him Minister of Education, but replaced him in the Cabinet reshuffle a year later by Tsuneo Suzuki. In 2009 he lost his seat in the House of Commons, 2012, he won back the constituency.