# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sadakazu-tanigaki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:09:10.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sadakazu-tanigaki"
name: "Sadakazu Tanigaki"
slug: "sadakazu-tanigaki"
description: "Sadakazu Tanigaki  is a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2017, as Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006, as President of the Liberal Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2009 to 2012, as Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2014, and as LDP Secretary-General from 2014 to 2016. He was only the second LDP leader who was not simultaneously Prime Minister of Japan. He retired from politics following a spinal cord injury in 2016 that saw him using a wheelchair."
tagline: "Japanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tanigaki_Sadakazu_1-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1945-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             19.83163913595934
  historical:           21.03758533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  171
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Tanigaki_S"
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    url:       "http://www.tanigaki-s.net/"
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    title: "Tanigaki Sadakazu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump