Shunichi Kuryū

is a Japanese police officer who served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2021 to 2024. He previously served as Commissioner General of the National Police Agency from 2018 to 2020.

Career Shun'ichi Kuryu was born in Tokyo on December 6, 1958. He studied law at the University of Tokyo and joined the National Police Agency after graduating in 1981. As a police officer, he worked mainly in the field of criminal investigation and countermeasures against organized crime. Kuryu was also seconded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked at the Japanese embassies in India and the United States.

Kuryu was chief of the Tokushima Prefectural police from August 2005 to August 2007. He was assigned as administrative secretary to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda when he took office in September 2007 until he resigned in September 2008. He was replaced when Shigeru Ishiba succeeded Kishida in October 2024.