
is a Japanese
politician
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of the
Democratic Party of Japan
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, a member of the
House of Representatives
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in the
Diet
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(national legislature). A native of
Higashiibaraki District, Ibaraki, he attended the
Musashi Institute of Technology as both undergraduate and graduate. He was elected to the assembly of
Ibaraki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the KantÅ region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefectur ...
where he served for one term and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the
Japan Socialist Party
The was a socialist and progressive political party in Japan that existed from 1945 to 1996. The party was founded as the Social Democratic Party of Japan by members of several proletarian parties that existed before World War II, including t ...
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References
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External links
Official websitein Japanese.
1947 births
Living people
Politicians from Ibaraki Prefecture
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Democratic Party of Japan politicians
Ministers of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan
21st-century Japanese politicians
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