was a Japanese politician. He represented the Yamanashi Prefecture electoral district and later Yamanashi District No. 3 in the

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in the national

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from 1993 until 2002 and was

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Yamanashi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 (1 January 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the no ...

from 2007 until 2015. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo Law Department.

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* Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) University of Tokyo alumni People from Yamanashi Prefecture 1942 births 2020 deaths Governors of Yamanashi Prefecture {{Japan-politician-1940s-stub