is a Japanese politician serving in the

House of Representatives of Japan The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives ha ...

as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration. He was elected by the first district of the Japanese

prefecture A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain international ...

Gunma is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima P ...

. In 2005, he was the Chief Deputy Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party. According to

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, in 1999 he received JPY8 million in political donations from the construction company of his father by channeling the money through political organizations. Individual politicians in Japan are banned from receiving more than 500,000 a year until 1999, after which all corporate donations were banned, but there was no such ban on donations by political organizations. On 27 December 2006 he resigned as a result of this scandal from his position as state minister in charge of administrative reform, only 3 months after being appointed by Prime Minister

Shinzō Abe Shinzo Abe ( ; ja, 安倍晋三, Hepburn: , ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 20 ...

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JANJAN ''JANJAN'' (), short for ''Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures'' (), was a Japanese online newspaper started by Ken Takeuchi, journalist and former mayor of Kamakura, Kanagawa. Launched in February 2003, the newspaper is credited ...

The website of Genchiro Sata

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20071008000241/http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_english.nsf/html/statics/member/mem_s.htm The House of Representatives of Japan's list of members by constituency
"LDP's Sata received political funds via legal loophole". Kyodo News International, Inc. October 18, 2000.

"LEAD: Koizumi seeks cooperation from pro-Pyongyang group on N. Korea". Kyodo News International, Inc. May 31, 2005.
1952 births Living people People from Maebashi Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Government ministers of Japan Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Hokkaido University alumni 21st-century Japanese politicians Members of the House of Representatives from Gunma Prefecture {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub