is a Japanese

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

serving in the House of Representatives. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was selected to become Economic Revitalization Minister in October 2022 upon the cabinet resignation of

Daishiro Yamagiwa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives (2003-2005: Southern Kanto proportional representation block, 2005-2009 and 2012–present: Kanagawa 18th district) in the Diet (national legisla ...

. Goto previously served as

Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the leader and chief executive of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. The minister is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. Minister Katsunobu Ka ...

from October 2021 to August 2022.

Career

A native of

Minato, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Minato ward exhibits th ...

and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980. He also received a master's degree from

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as a bureaucrat. After he left the ministry in 1995, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as a member of the New Frontier Party. He ran again in 2000 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 ...

and was elected for the first time.

References

External links

Official website
in Japanese. Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Living people 1955 births People from Minato Politicians from Tokyo Members of the House of Representatives from Tokyo New Frontier Party (Japan) politicians 20th-century Japanese politicians Democratic Party of Japan politicians Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians Ministers of Health and Welfare of Japan {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub