was a Japanese politician of the
Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the
House of Councillors
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers. If the t ...
in the
Diet (national legislature).
Career
A native of
Hiroshima, Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
and graduate of the
University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
, he became mayor of
Mihara, Hiroshima in 1987 and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1993. He died from complications of a stroke on April 14, 2023, at the age of 80.
溝手顕正元参議院議員が死去 80歳 河井案里氏当選の2019年選挙で落選
References
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External links
* in Japanese.
1942 births
2023 deaths
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Hibakusha
People from Hiroshima
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
University of Tokyo alumni
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