is a Japanese

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serving in the

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in the

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(national legislature) as a member of the

Democratic Party of Japan The was a centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to centre-left liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016. The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic Part ...

. A native of

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and graduate of

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he was elected for the first time in 1990 as a member of the

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after an unsuccessful run in 1986. In 2012, the ''

Yomiuri Shimbun The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are t ...

'' reported that Tsutsui had divulged secret information to a Chinese agricultural enterprise. Tsutsui sued the newspaper for

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, and was awarded 3.3 million yen in damages in 2015 on the basis that the truth of the allegations could not be confirmed.

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Official website
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