Kenji Katsube

Kenji Katsube (born September 6, 1959, in Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese politician who has served as a member of the House of Councillors of Japan since 2019. He is one of the six representatives of the Hokkaido at-large district, and is a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party.

He graduated from the Hokkaido University of Education in 1984, and worked as an elementary school teacher from 1984 to 2000. In 2000, he took a full-time job with the prefectural teachers union. From 2003 to 2019, he was a member of the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly, serving as vice-chairman from 2017 to 2019. He was elected to the House of Councillors in the 2019 election; his term ends in 2025.

As of July 18, 2023, he is a member of the following committees:


 * Committee on Financial Affairs
 * Committee on Rules and Administration