is a

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and member of the

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for the

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(SDP). Elected in 2004 as an independent candidate with support of the

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and the SDP from

Niigata Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...

(No. 1 with 428,117 votesMIC: official district results
/ref>), he is, as of 2008, the only directly elected SDP member of the House of Councillors. Kondo is a graduate of

Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The univer ...

and worked as a lawyer in Niigata. From 1987 to 2004 he was a member of the Niigata prefectural assembly.

References

1947 births Japan Socialist Party politicians Living people Chuo University alumni 20th-century Japanese lawyers Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub