is a Japanese

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of the

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, a member of the

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in the

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(national legislature). A native of

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, he attended the

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as undergraduate and received a master's degree from Soka University. After that, he worked at the government of

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from 1979 to 1988. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990.

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