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Average Declared Assets of Japan’s New Upper House Members Rise to ¥30.82 Million

The legally required disclosures, tallied without stock holdings, reveal that a handful of very wealthy members lifted the mean.

Overview

  • Asset reports for 125 lawmakers elected in July 2025 were published on January 5 under the National Diet Members' Asset Disclosure Law.
  • The average reported holdings reached ¥30.82 million, up ¥5.47 million from the 2023 disclosure, with eight lawmakers now above ¥100 million, doubling the prior count.
  • LDP lawmaker Toshiharu Furukawa topped the list at ¥588.5 million, followed by DPFP’s Shuichi Harada at ¥439.23 million and Team Mirai’s Takahiro Anno at ¥360.98 million.
  • Other members over ¥100 million include Japan Conservative Party’s Naoki Hyakuta (¥234.64 million), the LDP’s Yasuyuki Sakai (¥220.11 million), DPFP’s Itaru Goto (¥117.99 million), the LDP’s Junichi Ishii (¥107.49 million) and the CDP’s Hiroe Makiyama (¥100.48 million).
  • The compilations counted deposits and other non-stock financial assets plus land and buildings, with averages of ¥17.02 million in financial assets and ¥13.79 million in real estate; 20 lawmakers reported zero assets as of July 29, 2025.