Yuya Niwa
Native name丹羽 雄哉
OfficeMinister of Health and Welfare
Prime ministerKeizō Obuchi
Yoshirō Mori
Term start5 October 1999
Term end4 July 2000
PredecessorSohei Miyashita
SuccessorYūji Tsushima
Prime minister 1Kiichi Miyazawa
Term start 112 December 1992
Term end 19 August 1993
Predecessor 1Tokuo Yamashita
Successor 1Keigo Ōuchi
Office 2Member of the House of Representatives
Constituency 2Ibaraki 6th
Term start 219 December 2012
Term end 228 September 2017
Predecessor 2Hiroko Oizumi
Successor 2Ayano Kunimitsu
Constituency 3Ibaraki 3rd (1979–1996)
Ibaraki 6th (1996–2009)
Term start 38 October 1979
Term end 321 July 2009
Predecessor 3Kyōshirō Niwa
Successor 3Hiroko Oizumi
Birth date20 April 1944 (age 82)
Birth placeTamari, Ibaraki, Japan
FatherKyōshirō Niwa
PartyLiberal Democratic
Alma materKeio University

Yuya Niwa (丹羽 雄哉, Niwa Yūya) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Niihari District, Ibaraki and graduate of Keio University he was elected for the first time in 1979 after working as a writer for Yomiuri Shimbun. Later, he served as the Minister of Health in 1992 and in 1999.

He was defeated by Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)-backed candidate Hiroko Ōizumi (former Lieutenant Governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture) in the Japanese general election, 2009.

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