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is a Japanese politician of the

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, a former member of the

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in the

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. A native of

Iwaki, Fukushima is a Cities of Japan, city located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , Iwaki had a population of 322,019 in 143,500 households, and population density of 261 persons per km². The total area of the city is , making it the largest city in the prefec ...

and graduate of

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, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of

Fukushima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,771,100 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miyagi Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture ...

in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. He represented the

Fukushima 5th district , the House of Representatives of Japan is elected from a combination of multi-member districts and single-member districts, a method called parallel voting. Currently, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member districts (called proportional re ...

from 2014 until 2024 when the district was abolished. On 26 April 2017, he became the minister responsible for disaster reconstruction in the Tohoku Region, after the previous minister,

Masahiro Imamura is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Overview A native of Kashima, Saga and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was ...

, resigned after making insensitive remarks about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which had hit the Tohoku region.

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