is a former

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ese politician of the

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, who served as a member of the

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in the

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(national legislature) and formerly

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. A native of

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and graduate of

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, he was elected for the first time in 1980 after an unsuccessful run in 1979. The character Tetsuya Gamon in the manga Akumetsu is based on him.

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