is a Japanese

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who has served as the

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since November 2021. He is also a member of the

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since 1990, and served as

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from 2004 to 2005, and as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2008 to 2009.

Early life

Hosoda was born in

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on April 5, 1944. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the

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, and worked at the

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from 1967 to 1986, serving as Director of the Washington Office of Japan National Oil Corporation from 1983 to 1985, and as Director of the Price Policy Division in the Industrial Policy Bureau from 1985 to 1986.

Political career

Hosoda left government service in 1986 to become a secretary to his father, Kichizo Hosoda (1912-2007), who was then a member of the House of Representatives. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the 1990 general election, representing the Shimane Prefecture at-large district, which had previously been his father's constituency.

Koizumi government

Prime Minister

appointed Hosoda to the Cabinet posts of Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, and Minister of State for IT Policy in 2002. Hosoda became Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in September 2003, and was promoted to

and Minister of State for Gender Equality following

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's resignation in May 2004.

Aso government

After

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was elected to the LDP presidency and became Prime Minister, Hosoda was appointed Secretary-General of the LDP. He served in this post from September 2008 to September 2009, when he resigned following the party's historic defeat in the 2009 general election.

Abe government

Following

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's victory in the 2012 LDP presidential election, Abe appointed Hosoda to head the ''Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyukai'' (''Seiwa-kai''), the largest

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in the party, replacing

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's hospitalization for a spinal cord injury in July 2016. In August 2016, Hosoda was appointed Chairman of the LDP General Council. Hosoda chaired the LDP's 2018 task force on reforming the

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, drawing up a four-point revision proposal in March 2018 that included an amendment to Article 9 to make explicit reference to the Self-Defense Forces. Abe named Hosoda as head of the LDP Headquarters for the Promotion of Revision of the Constitution in September 2019, replacing

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, who was viewed as more "dogmatic" than Hosoda and had antagonized opposition parties. Hosoda was a member of the LDP Parliamentary Group on the Promotion and Conservation of Japanese Sword and Ironwork Culture, which supported subsidies for Tatara steel.

Personal life

Hosoda enjoys playing

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References

External links

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Official website
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