Kenji Manabe

Kenji Manabe
真鍋 賢二
Official portrait, 1998
Director-General of the Environmental Agency
In office
30 July 1998  5 October 1999
Prime MinisterKeizō Obuchi
Preceded byHiroshi Oki
Succeeded byKayoko Shimizu
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
23 July 1995  28 July 2007
Preceded byJun Kioka
Succeeded byEmiko Uematsu
ConstituencyKagawa at-large
In office
10 July 1977  9 July 1989
Preceded byTan Maekawa
Succeeded byJun Kioka
ConstituencyKagawa at-large
Personal details
Born(1935-07-14)14 July 1935
Mitoyo, Kagawa, Japan
Died2 March 2024(2024-03-02) (aged 88)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Children2
Alma materGifu University
OccupationPathologist

Kenji Manabe (Japanese: 真鍋賢二 Manabe Kenji; 14 July 1935 – 2 March 2024) was a Japanese pathologist and politician. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in the House of Councillors from 1977 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 2007. He was also Director-General of the Environmental Agency from 1998 to 1999.

Manabe died in Tokyo on 2 March 2024, at the age of 88.