is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He is a former member of the

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(DP), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and

New Party Sakigake The , also known as the New Harbinger Party, was a political party in Japan that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on 22 June 1993. The party was created by Masayoshi Takemura. The party was centrist, and had many reformist an ...

. After he joined the DPJ in 1996, he was elected to the House of Representatives. Shoichi Kondo cropped 1 Shoichi Kondo - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2011

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He joined the Chunichi Shimbun, a major left-leaning,

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and

social-democratic Social democracy is a Political philosophy, political, Social philosophy, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocati ...

general newspaper, in 1984 and left the company in 1993.

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in Japanese. Living people 1958 births Sophia University alumni People from Nagoya 21st-century Japanese politicians Members of the House of Representatives from Aichi Prefecture Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan politicians Democratic Party of Japan politicians Chunichi Shimbun people {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub